I stuck with the SNES until 1999 and the main reason was because I worked at Target and they had a killer SNES collection for sale and they had a ton of $20 SNES games, so that kept me with the little gray and purple box. Ocarina of Time and Parasite Eve pushed me over to N64 and PlayStation but I still consider SNES to be the best console ever
I mentioned this on another comment but we bought the SNES in 1998 when it was already on its way to getting discontinued. And I don't regret the decision because it has a massive library to choose from. You just had to go to whatever flea market close to you. That was a reason we also chose it over the Genesis.
@@rockoorbe2002 I got to the Genesis later but it’s a solid console and has some real gems but even if I got to go back in time I’d have stuck with SNES
I got my SNES in 1992 and stuck with it until 97. I finally gave in and got an N64. However, I still played my SNES regularly for a long time afterwards. Great system.
10:22 fun fact, the entire rom for this was featured in the gameboy version too. if you played it on a super gameboy it'd give you the option to play the native snes version (which is some insane value)
ikr I've always thought it was such waste to throw all that developer knowledge out the window basically, just because a game console is no longer profitable
Seems to be the case at times. I can only figure it's because they started working on it before the next system was announced and took that long to complete.
That's was always the case then. And sadly nowadays we don't really see that type of programming prowess and ingenuity from developers. I think they have too many options and tools to work with. Back then necessity being the mother of invention never rang so true.
@@BdR76people still come out with stuff for Sega consoles. But most isn't AAA quality. Most of the original AAA developers moved on or are out of the business all together. You rarely see a new original SNES or N64 game. You never see a new PS ,PS2, or PS3 game, Xbox and so forth.
some of the first year games were awesome though on snes. sim city, zelda 3, final fight, castlevania 4, un squadron, contra 3, gradius 3, super ghouls n ghosts, act raiser. its like the first year and then last year of a console's life are the greatest.
Great vid; one aspect is that in Europe, the n64 didn't launch until March 1997 so if you were a Nintendo fan at the time holding out for an N64, there was a strange - and very long period - where we'd be reading about all these next-gen titles in magazines but the shelves were still mostly filled with 16bit games - so a lot of those late titles make a lot of sense in the context of the european market. Importing consoles was pretty rare given the power and TV differences then. US gamers were very lucky at that time in terms of how early they got titles and the performance of NTSC over PAL games and I remember how jealous I was of them getting to play Mario 64 and so on months before us. I would spend hours reading about Mario 64 in magazines and trying to imagine what it was like to play just looking at the small, often blurry static images.
Yeah, from our perspective here in PAL-land, Donkey Kong Country 3 was pretty much the SNES finale before the N64 came around, so from my perspective it's the peak of the SNES.
Man the mid 90s was great year for gaming. I still remembered when they had the SNES, NES, and Sega games at walmart next to the cd and cassettes aisle. Now CDs are rarely there anymore. Maybe one small section. Boy how the times as changed.
@@andrewsveikauskas right. I'm sure vinyl will be here for a very long time. There was even a thing called "Blue Ray CDs" which was rare to get your hands on. I knew vinyl was still a think during the time when they weren't in stores which they were either only sold in record shops or some band camp album. Hell the Vapor wave albums cost a fortune and quickly sold out due to the popularity.
The Donkey Kong Country trilogy wasn't claymation but CGI and they did so before even Toy Story came out, the first ever CGI animated feature film. DKC was out in 94, almost a whole year before TS, though in Sweden TS wasn't out until feburary 96 so it was shipping nine-ten months before DKC3 (which was released before the N64 here, EU didn't get it until march 97).
The 90s was kind of an odd decade in gaming. IT was a golden decade for gaming, some of the best games ever made were released in the 90's. I find it interesting how the decade is split down the middle with two of the greatest generations of home consoles ever. Pre-95, the industry was dominated by Nintendo and Sega, the 16-bit wars were in full swing, and we were gives some of the greatest games ever for that generation. Post-95, the industry was dominated by the next-gen consoles, ps1 & N64 (I know Sega had the Saturn, but 95 also signaled the beginning of the end for Sega). Some of the GOATS were released in this Gen. Mario and Zelda basically redefined how 3d games were approached and played. With ps1 and N64 duking it out till the end of the 90s, gamers were given the absolute creme of the crop.
for me it was the 1985-1992 era of gaming. we saw nintendo's NES release in 85 and saw the likes of Super Mario... all the way to Mortal Kombat by 92 on genesis and snes. after that, things kinda... dwindled. u had tg16 and neo geo in the middle to mix it all up. but those were my golden years.
LOL Saturn *SH!T* on the 64. You’ve got to be joking. Saturn had over 1,200 titles. Did the 64 even have 300 games…? I think it’s actually way less than that. Also, no one cares about video games after the 90s. That’s when the medium peaked
@Retro Gamer 1985 to 1992 were great years (I started gaming around 1986 in arcades here and there, then at home on the NES in 1988) but it didn't stop there for me. The move into full 3D with the N64 was also some of the happiest times of my life. It was the 2000s that I started to feel kind of bored but nowadays I recognize that games are generally better than they've ever been (the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes are the perfect example).
The Frogger episode of Seinfeld aired late April of 1998. Maybe that had something to do with the re-releases. They would have had to get permission to use the name, so Konami would have known with plenty of warning.
If only Rockman & Forte, Tales of Phantasia, and Star Ocean could've somehow been brought over. Then again it might seem a little odd for a game like Tales of Phantasia with such an adorable looking cast to have an M rating!
If I recall, the N64 was difficult to get at first (I mean, for a lot of people, this was the first 3D system so it was HOT!!!). I vaguely remember people in 1997 having a hard time finding one too. Definitely by 1998, you could find stock in Wal-Mart daily. By 2002, they were trying to get rid of every last one they had on clearance! (making way for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube)!
Donkey Kong Country 3 gets flack for being the “weakest” of the DKC trilogy on SNES. But honestly it gave you a lot more to do and provided more of a challenge than the previous two entries. You can’t say Rare got lazy with it just cause Nintendo 64 came out. And I still find Wrinkly Kong playing on an N64 with that 16 bit rendition of ‘Peach’s Castle 64’ very endearing. ❤️
I cant disagree. I found the first donkey kong country to be rather bland to play after too soon. it looked amazing but the gameplay was not as good as other platformers around at the time. It wasn't awful, but i remember considering the gameplay passable but mediocre at the time,
DKC3 is the victory lap of the series. The developers just had a blast with different ideas that they wanted to experiment with. It's nowhere near as good as 2, but it makes it such a unique experience amongst the trilogy.
@@ImagineABear DKC3 was really good, DKC was amazing for it's time but 2 and 3 were also excellent games that improved upon the original and added more.
its actually almost toe to toe with dkc 2 to me. but i was lucky i played dkc1 then i got dkc3 on christmas and then later dkc2 which was the perfect order for me.
In EU Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow was called Donald Duck in Maui Mallard for the console games but was for some reason called Cold Shadow when it came to PC so when I saw Cold Shadow in a PC/Electronics store I thought "Wait a minute, that's the box art from Maui Mallard, why is it called Cold Shadow?". This was years before I saw the info online on Wikipedia. Also, I think that Donald Duck being Maui Mallard is like Duck Dodgers is to Daffy Duck, that's a character that he plays but still have the ducks personality coming through.
Lol you used the same argument I have when people talk about the pre DLC days "In MY day, you bought Street Fighter II three times at full price, as GOD INTENDED" Agree big time about a Robin Hood Disney game. Also, Incantation always reminded me of the Willow arcade game for some reason.
@JohnRiggs Me, a couple weeks ago: "Ooh! They have Special Champion Edition on the Genesis app on the Switch!" *shoves aside my Street Fighter Collection, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challenge and Capcom Arcade Stadium*
I would personally rather buy street fighter 2 four times than pay for dlc on half the games i buy now since i would still save money in the end and be less annoyed.
If we count the SFC games, Mega-Man & Bass(Rockman&Forte) was released in '98 for the system. Us Westerners didn't get that till much later on the GBA.
The SNES was the last Nintendo console I owned. I never realized that Dixie Kong's Double Trouble never included 'Donkey Kong Country' the title. I think it would be nice if Nintendo did a remake of the DKC Trilogy to the Switch. I never realized the load times in Street Fighter Alpha 2. But I was a kid back then so I probably didn't care enough.
@@JohnRiggs The proper term is "Pre-rendered" however 3D rendered isn't technically wrong, they were 3D rendered prior to being made into sprites, thus being Pre-rendered, either way I found it mildly amusing.
I covered the DOS version of Prince of Persia 2 on my own show a few months ago. The start of the game is combat heavy but the traditional exploration gameplay comes back into focus after that opening area... though the SNES version also plays RIDICULOUSLY fast for whatever reason. o_o;
It is a Sierra game on the PC. I played it as kid after grabbing a copy from Radio Shack in the late 80’s! It was very similar to the King’s Quest series. I would love to see a true remake of the Prydain chronicles in the future ;)
We played a lot of Timon and Pumbas Jungle games on the PC. It was surreal how a game could have that Disney animated look at the time, and it had quite a variety of mini games, the one with the most depth was the puzzle game that was like puyo pop with bugs. This makes me interested in checking out the Super Nintendo version. Also Lost Vikings 2 is going on my list. The original is a classic. Great reminiscing.
The SNES port of PoP2 was GARBO! It's incomplete and glitchy as hell. For example, at the end of the game you need to become one with the flame so to speak, and they couldn't even get THAT part of it right... It had promise, but it fell flat on its face. lol.
Alpha 2 was a damn incredible port, especially the music! It’s a real love letter to the fans and a great send-off, considering the lengths the devs went through despite having almost no hope of turning a decent profit- and it was generally trashed in reviews if I recall.
It's a really good outside of the loading issues, they needed a little longer in Q&A to sort out the loading issues (someone's released a rom hack that eliminates them on original hardware so it was within reach).
@@spaceghostcqc2137was the romhack taking advantage of the extra power in the machine the emulation ran on, or was it done in such a way that it could have been feasible on the original hardware?
I've tried Harvest Moon for many years and platforms but never really got into the game. I really tried because everyone had it. You are right that we were too busy playing on N64 so we missed a lot. Today I'm 53, and PS5, Xbox Series X and PC games are still more than just a hobby and I'm really excited to play the new Zelda with my grandson next weekend. (It all started in '77 with the Atari 2600, bc I was too young for the Arcades. Ok, _now_ I feel old..!^^) Btw, still a nice channel to identify with.
@@user-raging_Prophet Actually, I _am_ the granddad you never had. Unfortunately, I don't want to adopt anyone anymore. But thanks for the flowers! (And I'm sure I had the worst grandpa of all.)
There was a game room in my building with SNES and Sega Mega 2 consoles and games, and then came N64 and Play Station, so "old" games and consoles were only for rent. After some time, my parents decide to buy SNES with some games: Super Mario World, Donkey Kong 3, Top Gear 3000, Power Rangers, and some Mickey and Donald game that never worked. As far as I'm concerned, I couldn't missed DK3 - because that was the only one I played for year to come =)
I worked at target when the transition from snes to n64 was going on and I remember we had Mr Do, also Hagane and Final Fight 3.. We had a crap load of Illusion of Gaia in a fat box with a t-shirt. I don't ever remember getting Kirby 3 at the store though
That is a lot of games I was not playing at this point. I was either playing on PS1 or at my friends places playing N64. What a wonderful lineup though all things considered. Thanks John!
Turn 10 in June(21st ) of 98 move that year in September A school friend of mine had a N64 ,he had Star wars shadows the Empire (9/10) When the Fifth generation came out my video game store only had either Sega Saturn (most likely ) or PS1 games Nintendo Should have at least two more The Legend of Zelda games for the Super NES
Japanese Super Famicom release date Nov 21, 1990 until 2007 or so depending on if you want to include the Nintendo Power memory cassette service. That's well into the Gamecube and Wii's early years. Insane longevity!!!
Incantation looks just like The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse which also goes along with your Maui Mallard point about it being like the characters were acting in their own games.
Bumba and Timon jungle games, I had it for the PC it is so much more home on there. The shooting gallery support mouse control and the game has tons of voice lines for the game and the animation looks so much better on pc.
With all these releases, I was happy with my Super Nintendo well into 1997-1998, and didn't feel the need of an upgrade. Street Fighter Alpha 2 had loading times, but I didn't care, it was so fun to learn and use so many characters and all the Super combos. Donkey Kong Country 3 was awesome as well, and I really don't get it when people call it a black sheep. For me it was on par with DKC2, and it's a lot more refined and advanced, in terms of gameplay, than DKC1. And of course, in the late 1990s, I also bought some older games that I had missed before, like F-Zero
I havnt played those Prince of Persias probably since they then, that was one of the most unforgiving Games lol the old computer games were even harder, still loved them. Great vid! Any version of street fighter 2 is better any street fight after including 5
I actually bought ultimate mk3 for snes even though I had a n64 because I didn't have a Playstation yet and my pc couldn't run mk3 worth a damn. Though I think this game came out before the n64 anyway but I was saving my money for the n64 so I couldn't get it then 😂I'd play it on my buddy's computer which was beefier than mine.
I was a die hard SNES user well into the N64 era. I still have Harvest Moon and Frogger CIB. Harvest Moon was amazing. Frogger was great looking but I was disappointed they didn't add an option for music during game play. And If I recall, the title screen was completely silent. Thanks for the great video and stroll down memory lane.
On the frogger remake, we're about the same age, you probably remember the centipede remake as well . I remember the tagline for the frogger remakes was "He's back" and the commercial had him going under surgery or something haha
THANK YOU.I once pointed out in MisterYeti's Twitch stream that Frogger was the final game released for both the SNES and Genesis and half the chatters didn't believe me.
I didn't even know "Timon and Pumba's Jungle Games" had an SNES port. I remember the PC version being advertised on my VHS copy of "James and the Giant Peach".
Yeah, I was a kid in the 90s but I definitely remember having to buy full priced "upgrades" for Capcom fighting games and Pokemon. Heck the selling points of Pokemon Crystal over Gold and Silver when it launched was letting you play as a girl and moving sprite images for the mons. Things like that are now free update patches.
Donald and the "duck universe" is extremely popular in Europe so he's expected to be in all sorts of cool duck-related stuff over there. In america he is not expected to be used in such an interesting manner. Outside of america, it's clear that the game stars Donald.
Personally, I would much rather buy a few Fighters again (or wait for the final version to come out) for the small number of games it turned out to be than have the DLC nightmare we have today. A lot of games in the genre now don't even use DLC to sell new characters; Street Fighter is still making you buy new versions, or at least it was.
So many great games of 1996/1997 for SNES and Genesis Lufia II Rise Of The Sinistrals Was Awesome For My Summer And Fall Of 1996 For My SNES I Also Enjoyed UMK3 Marvel Dixie Kong SFA2 Harvest Moon And Kirby Dreamland 3
I never played it myself, but I do remember Harvest Moon being advertised pretty heavily around that time. I'm still amazed about this time period though. Going to the video game section of a store and you'd see Wario's Woods, Playstation, Warcraft, SNES, and N64 titles all on the shelves at the same time. It was like three generations of games on there at the same time.
I noticed most Snes games released in the U.S. after the N64 weren't really pushing the system to its limits, especially in graphics, compared to the late era NES games. Yet plenty of Japanese only late era Snes games did push the limits, especially the RPG's, where they look like 32 bit games.
In Japan the picture with Super Famicom was different. In 1998 Nintendo released Wrecking Crew '98, Super Punch Out, Dr.Mario, Super Famicom Wars, Wizardry 1,2,3, tons of Mario Picross games on Nintendo Power "official flash cartridge". In September of 1999 there was release of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. And final game was Metal Slider Glory: Director's Cut released on November 29 2000.
0:21 Unless you lived in Japan and owned a Satellaview, which didn't stop pumping out event based broadcast games for the SNES exclusively on the satelite service until 2001
Glad to see Lost Vikings 2 on there! The Lost Vikings games are so great! In the sequel you could play as a werewolf or a dinosaur as well as the 3 main Vikings.
I never understood why Kirby's Dreamland 3 was a Super Nintendo game instead of a Game boy game up until this point all the consoles Kirby games had a different name and dreamland was the Game boy name. Funny and happy true stories that I ended up buying that game instead of the other Kirby game on the Super Nintendo when I wanted to replay whatever game my friend had as a kid. It was a good thing because the Super Nintendo version of the other Kirby game sucks in comparison to the DS version so it means I got to experience it fully on the DS. It (Kirby Superstar ultra) is definitely in my top three favorite Kirby games long with triple deluxe and Kirby's adventure/Nightmare in Dreamland
The last licensed game to come out on the SNES, or in this case, the Super Famicom was in japan on November 29, 2000. Very close to being out in 2001, certainly quite late in the SNES/Super Famicom's life. And the Gamecube, was to come out in japan in a little under a year from then, further going to show how much of a late title that one. was
If I'm not mistaken, the SNES version of UMK3 has balance changes which created a different meta. There are apparently still tournaments for it in places like South America, though I'm having trouble finding footage
I noticed this in a video I saw about the best games on each gen. And some picks were released the same year or after the next gen console. Sometimes huge titles. So confusing but I guess the number of previous consoles means higher potential to sell more than a new console. But yeah, thanks, gonna watch this video. I'm glad I found this.
I love the idea of these videos - I too was behind a few years in gaming tech but it did not matter to me and it meant I got games cheaper/2nd hand as others tried to finance the more modern stuff
Your speculation on the Disney games are correct! Maui Mallard is clearly Donald Duck, but they wanted to use the image of Donald but without having to worry about the "history" of Donald (nephew of Scrooge McDuck, dating Daisy Duck etc), kinda use Donald as an actor instead of a character. Kinda shame it didn't work out, I liked Cold Shadow. And yes- Pinnochio was being taken out of the vault and was given a game to go along with it. Kinda curious if Robin Hood was ever taken out of the vault in a timely enough manner that he could've gotten an SNES / Mega Drive game...
20 NES games launched after SNES was released - czcams.com/video/Yf1KXPvxYWY/video.html
Oh
64 was one of the worst consoles of all time
Don't mention that the last (official) was released a little under 2 years before the release of the N64. Wario's Woods, released December 10, 1994.
@@camiblack1 ?
This was also a good vid👍
I stuck with the SNES until 1999 and the main reason was because I worked at Target and they had a killer SNES collection for sale and they had a ton of $20 SNES games, so that kept me with the little gray and purple box.
Ocarina of Time and Parasite Eve pushed me over to N64 and PlayStation but I still consider SNES to be the best console ever
In Japan, there are loads of super Famicom games too by 2003. Lots of jrpgs were recommended over there for the snes
I mentioned this on another comment but we bought the SNES in 1998 when it was already on its way to getting discontinued. And I don't regret the decision because it has a massive library to choose from. You just had to go to whatever flea market close to you. That was a reason we also chose it over the Genesis.
@@rockoorbe2002 I got to the Genesis later but it’s a solid console and has some real gems but even if I got to go back in time I’d have stuck with SNES
I got my SNES in 1992 and stuck with it until 97. I finally gave in and got an N64. However, I still played my SNES regularly for a long time afterwards. Great system.
Fun Fact: Star Fox 2 was supposed to be one of those last SNES games but was canned at the last minute to focus all 3D games on the N64.
Hi Sheldon! 😂
And then it never happened
Until 2017
That would have been a wonderful swan song for the SNES.
10:22 fun fact, the entire rom for this was featured in the gameboy version too. if you played it on a super gameboy it'd give you the option to play the native snes version (which is some insane value)
I love that.
Wow, you’re right. A Disney Robin Hood game would have been amazing
I still love the movie from -73. A well made game would have been so cool.
F*$& Disney.
Weird that some of the best games on a console are after devs mastered it.😜 Late era games are marvels!
ikr I've always thought it was such waste to throw all that developer knowledge out the window basically, just because a game console is no longer profitable
Seems to be the case at times. I can only figure it's because they started working on it before the next system was announced and took that long to complete.
That's was always the case then. And sadly nowadays we don't really see that type of programming prowess and ingenuity from developers. I think they have too many options and tools to work with. Back then necessity being the mother of invention never rang so true.
@@BdR76people still come out with stuff for Sega consoles. But most isn't AAA quality. Most of the original AAA developers moved on or are out of the business all together. You rarely see a new original SNES or N64 game. You never see a new PS ,PS2, or PS3 game, Xbox and so forth.
some of the first year games were awesome though on snes. sim city, zelda 3, final fight, castlevania 4, un squadron, contra 3, gradius 3, super ghouls n ghosts, act raiser. its like the first year and then last year of a console's life are the greatest.
Great vid; one aspect is that in Europe, the n64 didn't launch until March 1997 so if you were a Nintendo fan at the time holding out for an N64, there was a strange - and very long period - where we'd be reading about all these next-gen titles in magazines but the shelves were still mostly filled with 16bit games - so a lot of those late titles make a lot of sense in the context of the european market. Importing consoles was pretty rare given the power and TV differences then.
US gamers were very lucky at that time in terms of how early they got titles and the performance of NTSC over PAL games and I remember how jealous I was of them getting to play Mario 64 and so on months before us. I would spend hours reading about Mario 64 in magazines and trying to imagine what it was like to play just looking at the small, often blurry static images.
In France the launch was as late as September 1997.
Yeah, from our perspective here in PAL-land, Donkey Kong Country 3 was pretty much the SNES finale before the N64 came around, so from my perspective it's the peak of the SNES.
US wasn’t lucky, it was the most powerful market
Man the mid 90s was great year for gaming. I still remembered when they had the SNES, NES, and Sega games at walmart next to the cd and cassettes aisle. Now CDs are rarely there anymore. Maybe one small section. Boy how the times as changed.
And yet vinyl records are booming, you can get them at target or Walmart.
@@andrewsveikauskas right. I'm sure vinyl will be here for a very long time. There was even a thing called "Blue Ray CDs" which was rare to get your hands on. I knew vinyl was still a think during the time when they weren't in stores which they were either only sold in record shops or some band camp album. Hell the Vapor wave albums cost a fortune and quickly sold out due to the popularity.
I have dk country 2 and I have frogged on the sega genisis to it’s the best home port ever .
DKC3 and Kirby’s Dream Land 3 are both EXEMPLARY
The Donkey Kong Country trilogy wasn't claymation but CGI and they did so before even Toy Story came out, the first ever CGI animated feature film. DKC was out in 94, almost a whole year before TS, though in Sweden TS wasn't out until feburary 96 so it was shipping nine-ten months before DKC3 (which was released before the N64 here, EU didn't get it until march 97).
The 90s was kind of an odd decade in gaming. IT was a golden decade for gaming, some of the best games ever made were released in the 90's. I find it interesting how the decade is split down the middle with two of the greatest generations of home consoles ever. Pre-95, the industry was dominated by Nintendo and Sega, the 16-bit wars were in full swing, and we were gives some of the greatest games ever for that generation. Post-95, the industry was dominated by the next-gen consoles, ps1 & N64 (I know Sega had the Saturn, but 95 also signaled the beginning of the end for Sega). Some of the GOATS were released in this Gen. Mario and Zelda basically redefined how 3d games were approached and played. With ps1 and N64 duking it out till the end of the 90s, gamers were given the absolute creme of the crop.
Video game generations used to mean something!
for me it was the 1985-1992 era of gaming. we saw nintendo's NES release in 85 and saw the likes of Super Mario... all the way to Mortal Kombat by 92 on genesis and snes. after that, things kinda... dwindled. u had tg16 and neo geo in the middle to mix it all up. but those were my golden years.
LOL Saturn *SH!T* on the 64. You’ve got to be joking. Saturn had over 1,200 titles. Did the 64 even have 300 games…? I think it’s actually way less than that. Also, no one cares about video games after the 90s. That’s when the medium peaked
Some of the best PC games came out during this time too
@Retro Gamer 1985 to 1992 were great years (I started gaming around 1986 in arcades here and there, then at home on the NES in 1988) but it didn't stop there for me. The move into full 3D with the N64 was also some of the happiest times of my life. It was the 2000s that I started to feel kind of bored but nowadays I recognize that games are generally better than they've ever been (the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes are the perfect example).
The Frogger episode of Seinfeld aired late April of 1998. Maybe that had something to do with the re-releases. They would have had to get permission to use the name, so Konami would have known with plenty of warning.
If only Rockman & Forte, Tales of Phantasia, and Star Ocean could've somehow been brought over. Then again it might seem a little odd for a game like Tales of Phantasia with such an adorable looking cast to have an M rating!
If I recall, the N64 was difficult to get at first (I mean, for a lot of people, this was the first 3D system so it was HOT!!!). I vaguely remember people in 1997 having a hard time finding one too. Definitely by 1998, you could find stock in Wal-Mart daily. By 2002, they were trying to get rid of every last one they had on clearance! (making way for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube)!
Donkey Kong Country 3 gets flack for being the “weakest” of the DKC trilogy on SNES.
But honestly it gave you a lot more to do and provided more of a challenge than the previous two entries. You can’t say Rare got lazy with it just cause Nintendo 64 came out.
And I still find Wrinkly Kong playing on an N64 with that 16 bit rendition of ‘Peach’s Castle 64’ very endearing. ❤️
I cant disagree. I found the first donkey kong country to be rather bland to play after too soon. it looked amazing but the gameplay was not as good as other platformers around at the time. It wasn't awful, but i remember considering the gameplay passable but mediocre at the time,
DKC3 is the victory lap of the series. The developers just had a blast with different ideas that they wanted to experiment with. It's nowhere near as good as 2, but it makes it such a unique experience amongst the trilogy.
@@ImagineABear DKC3 was really good, DKC was amazing for it's time but 2 and 3 were also excellent games that improved upon the original and added more.
its actually almost toe to toe with dkc 2 to me.
but i was lucky i played dkc1 then i got dkc3 on christmas and then later dkc2 which was the perfect order for me.
@@ZsH85 I really liked the extra features and story elements Rare added to DKC3 like the Brothers Bear and banana birds, and the secret ending
In EU Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow was called Donald Duck in Maui Mallard for the console games but was for some reason called Cold Shadow when it came to PC so when I saw Cold Shadow in a PC/Electronics store I thought "Wait a minute, that's the box art from Maui Mallard, why is it called Cold Shadow?". This was years before I saw the info online on Wikipedia. Also, I think that Donald Duck being Maui Mallard is like Duck Dodgers is to Daffy Duck, that's a character that he plays but still have the ducks personality coming through.
Lol you used the same argument I have when people talk about the pre DLC days "In MY day, you bought Street Fighter II three times at full price, as GOD INTENDED"
Agree big time about a Robin Hood Disney game. Also, Incantation always reminded me of the Willow arcade game for some reason.
I rebought SF2 plenty. Then rebought on other consoles and, a few years ago, that collection on Switch. I'm octuple-dipping at this point.
@JohnRiggs Me, a couple weeks ago: "Ooh! They have Special Champion Edition on the Genesis app on the Switch!" *shoves aside my Street Fighter Collection, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challenge and Capcom Arcade Stadium*
I would personally rather buy street fighter 2 four times than pay for dlc on half the games i buy now since i would still save money in the end and be less annoyed.
I... Thought I was older than 9 when the N64 came out... Man... How time flies!
this is the unique content that keeps me coming back Mr Riggs 👾🎮💜
Same here
Big mother f'n RIIIIIGGGS
Terranigma was definitely looked over greatly. A very good action RPG. One of my favourites for sure
I wish we got that game released in North America. Thankfully a friend of mine modded my SNES Classic to include it.
If we count the SFC games, Mega-Man & Bass(Rockman&Forte) was released in '98 for the system. Us Westerners didn't get that till much later on the GBA.
Great video, John! Always a good morning when one of your videos gets uploaded.
The SNES was the last Nintendo console I owned.
I never realized that Dixie Kong's Double Trouble never included 'Donkey Kong Country' the title. I think it would be nice if Nintendo did a remake of the DKC Trilogy to the Switch.
I never realized the load times in Street Fighter Alpha 2. But I was a kid back then so I probably didn't care enough.
They should do a trilogy, for sure.
? Dixie Kong's Double Trouble does have DKC in the title.
i remember noticing the loadings but not caring at all, the game looked and felt so modern, a peek into the next gen
Just realized 4:02 those select screen pics are direct spirits capture of the fighting game.
I don't think I've ever heard DKC's artstyle be referred to as "Claymation"
I couldn't think of the name off-hand. '3D Rendered' is probably a better thing to say.
@@JohnRiggs The proper term is "Pre-rendered" however 3D rendered isn't technically wrong, they were 3D rendered prior to being made into sprites, thus being Pre-rendered, either way I found it mildly amusing.
I covered the DOS version of Prince of Persia 2 on my own show a few months ago. The start of the game is combat heavy but the traditional exploration gameplay comes back into focus after that opening area... though the SNES version also plays RIDICULOUSLY fast for whatever reason. o_o;
I think Disney's "The Black Cauldron" would have made an awesome game.
oh, hell yeah it would have.
It is a Sierra game on the PC. I played it as kid after grabbing a copy from Radio Shack in the late 80’s! It was very similar to the King’s Quest series. I would love to see a true remake of the Prydain chronicles in the future ;)
We played a lot of Timon and Pumbas Jungle games on the PC. It was surreal how a game could have that Disney animated look at the time,
and it had quite a variety of mini games, the one with the most depth was the puzzle game that was like puyo pop with bugs. This makes me interested in checking out the Super Nintendo version.
Also Lost Vikings 2 is going on my list. The original is a classic. Great reminiscing.
Of all the games, Prince of Persia 2 was one of them
truer words never spoken.
The SNES port of PoP2 was GARBO! It's incomplete and glitchy as hell. For example, at the end of the game you need to become one with the flame so to speak, and they couldn't even get THAT part of it right... It had promise, but it fell flat on its face. lol.
Always a good day when Riggs posts 💪🏻🤟🏻
Alpha 2 was a damn incredible port, especially the music! It’s a real love letter to the fans and a great send-off, considering the lengths the devs went through despite having almost no hope of turning a decent profit- and it was generally trashed in reviews if I recall.
It's a really good outside of the loading issues, they needed a little longer in Q&A to sort out the loading issues (someone's released a rom hack that eliminates them on original hardware so it was within reach).
@Super Nostalgia Pray to Jesus! Repent or BURN in hell!!
The loading times ruined it.
@@spaceghostcqc2137 The loading times are a major issue. Breaks up the flow of gameplay.
@@spaceghostcqc2137was the romhack taking advantage of the extra power in the machine the emulation ran on, or was it done in such a way that it could have been feasible on the original hardware?
The Marvel Super Heroes game looks pretty awesome
@5:32 When something as niche as Disney's Darkwing Duck gets a video game, but Disney's Robin Hood did not
Well, Darkwing Duck was contemporary with the SNES, Robin Hood game out 20 years prior.
I've tried Harvest Moon for many years and platforms but never really got into the game. I really tried because everyone had it. You are right that we were too busy playing on N64 so we missed a lot.
Today I'm 53, and PS5, Xbox Series X and PC games are still more than just a hobby and I'm really excited to play the new Zelda with my grandson next weekend. (It all started in '77 with the Atari 2600, bc I was too young for the Arcades. Ok, _now_ I feel old..!^^)
Btw, still a nice channel to identify with.
You sound just like the grampa I always wanted, but never had. 😂
@@user-raging_Prophet Actually, I _am_ the granddad you never had. Unfortunately, I don't want to adopt anyone anymore. But thanks for the flowers! (And I'm sure I had the worst grandpa of all.)
N64 was launched in germany in march 1997. The last SNES fullprice games I bought were Terranigma and DKC3 in december 1996.
My god I loved my 64. It was my 2nd system (because "We already bought you a Nintendo") and the first I bought with my own money. Such great times!
You really threw me off in the Street Fighter lag part lol. Well played!
There was a game room in my building with SNES and Sega Mega 2 consoles and games, and then came N64 and Play Station, so "old" games and consoles were only for rent. After some time, my parents decide to buy SNES with some games: Super Mario World, Donkey Kong 3, Top Gear 3000, Power Rangers, and some Mickey and Donald game that never worked.
As far as I'm concerned, I couldn't missed DK3 - because that was the only one I played for year to come =)
I worked at target when the transition from snes to n64 was going on and I remember we had Mr Do, also Hagane and Final Fight 3.. We had a crap load of Illusion of Gaia in a fat box with a t-shirt. I don't ever remember getting Kirby 3 at the store though
It was an interesting time.
@@JohnRiggs there was also a single Sega CD game floating around called Willy Beamish that no one wanted
That is a lot of games I was not playing at this point. I was either playing on PS1 or at my friends places playing N64. What a wonderful lineup though all things considered. Thanks John!
5 years is not a good timeline, by the time most people got one
For real. I didn't get a ps1 until 1999.
Really enjoy this series
I have Nintendo, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, Gamecube, PS1 and PS2 games emualated on my Xbox Series X
Turn 10 in June(21st ) of 98 move that year in September
A school friend of mine had a N64 ,he had Star wars shadows the Empire (9/10)
When the Fifth generation came out my video game store only had either Sega Saturn (most likely ) or PS1 games
Nintendo Should have at least two more The Legend of Zelda games for the Super NES
Japanese Super Famicom release date Nov 21, 1990 until 2007 or so depending on if you want to include the Nintendo Power memory cassette service. That's well into the Gamecube and Wii's early years. Insane longevity!!!
Love seeing Riggs uploads!
HELLO JOHN RIGGS I LOVE NINTENDO AND SUPER NINTENDO AND NINTENDO 64 TOO MY FRIEND
@@stonecodfish2365 THANK YOU VERY MUCH TOO MY FRIEND AND SAME HERE TOO MY FRIEND
I'm still waiting on a SNES game for "Robin Hood - Men in Tights"
I remember Rare put a N64 console in the background in DKC3. Cool little Easter egg back in the day.
Incantation looks just like The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse which also goes along with your Maui Mallard point about it being like the characters were acting in their own games.
Bumba and Timon jungle games, I had it for the PC it is so much more home on there.
The shooting gallery support mouse control and the game has tons of voice lines for the game and the animation looks so much better on pc.
With all these releases, I was happy with my Super Nintendo well into 1997-1998, and didn't feel the need of an upgrade. Street Fighter Alpha 2 had loading times, but I didn't care, it was so fun to learn and use so many characters and all the Super combos. Donkey Kong Country 3 was awesome as well, and I really don't get it when people call it a black sheep. For me it was on par with DKC2, and it's a lot more refined and advanced, in terms of gameplay, than DKC1. And of course, in the late 1990s, I also bought some older games that I had missed before, like F-Zero
I havnt played those Prince of Persias probably since they then, that was one of the most unforgiving
Games lol the old computer games were even harder, still loved them. Great vid! Any version of street fighter 2 is better any street fight after including 5
I actually bought ultimate mk3 for snes even though I had a n64 because I didn't have a Playstation yet and my pc couldn't run mk3 worth a damn. Though I think this game came out before the n64 anyway but I was saving my money for the n64 so I couldn't get it then 😂I'd play it on my buddy's computer which was beefier than mine.
I still remember waiting at Best buy to buy harvest moon. Still love that game.
It seemed to start a trend where once the next gen launched, the quality of releases for current gen went down or there were hardly any.
Maui mallard is so underrated. Big ups on covering that one.
I was a die hard SNES user well into the N64 era. I still have Harvest Moon and Frogger CIB. Harvest Moon was amazing. Frogger was great looking but I was disappointed they didn't add an option for music during game play. And If I recall, the title screen was completely silent.
Thanks for the great video and stroll down memory lane.
On the frogger remake, we're about the same age, you probably remember the centipede remake as well . I remember the tagline for the frogger remakes was "He's back" and the commercial had him going under surgery or something haha
Kirby's Dreamland 3 is the best two player game
THANK YOU.I once pointed out in MisterYeti's Twitch stream that Frogger was the final game released for both the SNES and Genesis and half the chatters didn't believe me.
I didn't even know "Timon and Pumba's Jungle Games" had an SNES port. I remember the PC version being advertised on my VHS copy of "James and the Giant Peach".
i see a sweet plush in the background
Yeah, I was a kid in the 90s but I definitely remember having to buy full priced "upgrades" for Capcom fighting games and Pokemon.
Heck the selling points of Pokemon Crystal over Gold and Silver when it launched was letting you play as a girl and moving sprite images for the mons.
Things like that are now free update patches.
Donald and the "duck universe" is extremely popular in Europe so he's expected to be in all sorts of cool duck-related stuff over there. In america he is not expected to be used in such an interesting manner. Outside of america, it's clear that the game stars Donald.
I always think I'm done completing the collection of games I played as a kid... until you release another video. :D
Personally, I would much rather buy a few Fighters again (or wait for the final version to come out) for the small number of games it turned out to be than have the DLC nightmare we have today. A lot of games in the genre now don't even use DLC to sell new characters; Street Fighter is still making you buy new versions, or at least it was.
So many great games of 1996/1997 for SNES and Genesis Lufia II Rise Of The Sinistrals Was Awesome For My Summer And Fall Of 1996 For My SNES I Also Enjoyed UMK3 Marvel Dixie Kong SFA2 Harvest Moon And Kirby Dreamland 3
I never played it myself, but I do remember Harvest Moon being advertised pretty heavily around that time. I'm still amazed about this time period though. Going to the video game section of a store and you'd see Wario's Woods, Playstation, Warcraft, SNES, and N64 titles all on the shelves at the same time. It was like three generations of games on there at the same time.
The best times
Awesome video thank you very much! Subscribed!
Thank you Papa!
I noticed most Snes games released in the U.S. after the N64 weren't really pushing the system to its limits, especially in graphics, compared to the late era NES games. Yet plenty of Japanese only late era Snes games did push the limits, especially the RPG's, where they look like 32 bit games.
Kirby's Adventure def pushed the NES to its limits.
I love the SNES. Also love the box and box art for SNES.
Even the Super Famicom in Japan was getting games up until November 2000, when the PS2 was just only released a few months prior.
You forgot "Do Run Run" which was a another Mr. Do game and my personal favorite.
In Japan the picture with Super Famicom was different. In 1998 Nintendo released Wrecking Crew '98, Super Punch Out, Dr.Mario, Super Famicom Wars, Wizardry 1,2,3, tons of Mario Picross games on Nintendo Power "official flash cartridge". In September of 1999 there was release of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. And final game was Metal Slider Glory: Director's Cut released on November 29 2000.
Timon and Pumbaa looks great. If you said it was a PC or Saturn game, I would believe you!
That Kirby game, man. A SNES game made 4 years before the release of the GameCube. Absolutely amazing.
Within seconds I was excited to watch this. I'm digging the energy!
0:21 Unless you lived in Japan and owned a Satellaview, which didn't stop pumping out event based broadcast games for the SNES exclusively on the satelite service until 2001
There were definitely some good ones that came out. Nice to see the support for it
Maui Mallard was supposed to be inspired by Magnum PI
The loading pauses on Street Fighter Alpha 2 had more to do with the audio than with graphics decompression as what was previously believed.
i love the look of kirby's dreamland 3 so much
Kirby's Dreamland 3 is one of, if not my favorite, games on the SNES. I found it through ROMs many years after the end of the SNES.
Glad to see Lost Vikings 2 on there! The Lost Vikings games are so great! In the sequel you could play as a werewolf or a dinosaur as well as the 3 main Vikings.
5:33 -- Sir, I protest! I am NOT playing as a "Merry Man"!
Hoping to see an N64 after gamecube released version!
The Mario Land 2, Startropics and is that Princess Tomato(?) art are great
I never understood why Kirby's Dreamland 3 was a Super Nintendo game instead of a Game boy game up until this point all the consoles Kirby games had a different name and dreamland was the Game boy name.
Funny and happy true stories that I ended up buying that game instead of the other Kirby game on the Super Nintendo when I wanted to replay whatever game my friend had as a kid. It was a good thing because the Super Nintendo version of the other Kirby game sucks in comparison to the DS version so it means I got to experience it fully on the DS. It (Kirby Superstar ultra) is definitely in my top three favorite Kirby games long with triple deluxe and Kirby's adventure/Nightmare in Dreamland
Ultra is good, but you’re absolutely out of your mind if you actually think OG super star sucks. Let’s be reasonable here.
this video feels straight out of 2011 and I'm all for it
"...if they released New Super Mario Brother Wii, on the Nintendo Switch."
Let's hope no one gets any ideas from that
The last licensed game to come out on the SNES, or in this case, the Super Famicom was in japan on November 29, 2000. Very close to being out in 2001, certainly quite late in the SNES/Super Famicom's life. And the Gamecube, was to come out in japan in a little under a year from then, further going to show how much of a late title that one. was
If I'm not mistaken, the SNES version of UMK3 has balance changes which created a different meta. There are apparently still tournaments for it in places like South America, though I'm having trouble finding footage
Awesome video! Love these interesting topics, would've never known about all these games.
The last physical Super Famicom game released on a cartridge was Fire Emblem Thracia 776. One of the best games on the console.
I noticed this in a video I saw about the best games on each gen. And some picks were released the same year or after the next gen console. Sometimes huge titles. So confusing but I guess the number of previous consoles means higher potential to sell more than a new console.
But yeah, thanks, gonna watch this video. I'm glad I found this.
I love the idea of these videos - I too was behind a few years in gaming tech but it did not matter to me and it meant I got games cheaper/2nd hand as others tried to finance the more modern stuff
Donkey Kong Country 3 is my favorite DK game and one of my favorite games in general.
Your speculation on the Disney games are correct! Maui Mallard is clearly Donald Duck, but they wanted to use the image of Donald but without having to worry about the "history" of Donald (nephew of Scrooge McDuck, dating Daisy Duck etc), kinda use Donald as an actor instead of a character. Kinda shame it didn't work out, I liked Cold Shadow.
And yes- Pinnochio was being taken out of the vault and was given a game to go along with it. Kinda curious if Robin Hood was ever taken out of the vault in a timely enough manner that he could've gotten an SNES / Mega Drive game...
0:00 That's in North America. The N64 launched initially in June 23, 1996 in Japan. I happened to be born seven days before the N64 even launched.