Bloodreign

Once the cellphone with internet came into being, it was good to research an old game before you bought it, but of course, even ol granny at a Garage Sale will use one to check Ebay to see if she's selling a lottery ticket retirement or not, and that is the bad side. Weird that outside of Saturn Bomberman (Japanese version), most of my recent Saturn gets were either fighting games, or puzzle games as those tend to still sell for affordable prices (unless it's Fighters History Dynamite, yikes it can never be found cheaply. Even World Heroes Perfect relaxed in price long enough for me to snag a nice copy of it for under $30).

I love my Saturn, I own 57 games for it, sadly getting games for it is getting harder and harder to do due to rising costs to get a game I like.

Shame that Fatal Fury Special on the Sega CD just feels awful, while the PCE Engine CD version is a pleasure to play. The SCD version is missing the announcer, and background animations, while the PCE CD version has the announcer, and has a bit of the background animation that the arcade and other versions had. Samurai Shodown on the Sega CD also suffers from the same problems as Fatal Fury Special suffers from as well. What I have heard is JVC and whomever worked on the game had no source code to work with, and had to build the games from scratch, and perhaps they didn't have enough RAM to run either game with.

The Valis games, no matter the 16 bit console, or the PC Engine CD/Turbographx 16, are all extremely pricey, or pretty high in price compared to when I got all 3 Genesis, and #4 on SFC a matter of years ago. I don't think I ever paid more than $20 for any of them, now they go anywhere from $50, to well over $200.

There is a GBC version of Super Pac-Man, either coupled with the GBC version of Pac-Man, or the GBC version of Ms Pac-Man. One of the other, either regular Pac,or the Missus, has Pac-Attack. Edit: Super Pac is coupled with Ms Pac-Man, Pac-Attack with Pac-Man on the GBC.

The Genesis and Sega CD versions of Samurai Spirits weren't as great as they are always painted to be.The SCD version is missing the announcer, and I hear there is a bug that doesn't allow you to go past Amakusa and finish the game. Also lost a bot of animation. Genesis version of Sam Sho may have bigger sprites, but fewer animations than the SNES version, like win poses and such. Couple that with less background detail, half the endings of most characters were cut, the game doesn't even feel right, at least the SFC version feels closer to the arcade version, has a bit more animation, bit better background detail (the SNES version is right in between, with less animation than the SFC version, but more than the Genesis version), everyone's endings are intact, the meeting with Amakusa when he is in flame form is still there (the Gen version, that is missing). Post victory screens,with character sprite artwork, gone from the Genesis port entirely, but is intact in the SNES/SFC versions. The Genesis port of Sam Sho paid a heavy price for those larger sprites, way too much missing to even be considered great. It's good and fun, but nothing like people make it out to be. Yeah, it is a bit more censored, Japanese version included, than the Genesis version, and the sprites are smaller, but there is more packed into the game than the Genesis and Sega CD versions have. People overhype the Genesis version, but to be honest, neither 16 bit port was all that great to begin with, but it was all we had in the home in those days. The PS1 version, though it had a lot of loading, is the truest to the arcade, non Neo console version there is out there (plus you get the second game as well). The Sega CD port of Fatal Fury Special is also quite terrible.

I thought my Saturn was dead, but it booted US games up fine, but my Action Replay Cart no longer seemed to work. A friend told me, rub alcohol on the contacts of the cart, then insert and take out 4 times. Did so, and now the thing boots like new, really thought I'd have to spring for another cart, or another Saturn, but I hella relieved I don't have to do so. I didn't feel like playing the discs via emulator, especially after going through a lot of trouble unlocking every character in Magical Drop 3, or having save files at the bosses in SNK fighting games. I need to play my Saturn more, as where I live, in the country, dust tends to get pulled in by my AC a lot, and those damned contacts in the Saturn cart slot seem to attract dust more than anything else.

The Sam Sho Neo Geo Collection is wonderful, but there is one little hitch, Sam Sho V Perfect is actually censored. So no cutting anyone in half, nor blowing half their body off. SSV Special though is not censored thankfully. I picked this up a mere 2 hours after it went active on the Epic Store, and for something that is free, I can't complain as I have not run into any issues thus far, though I play against just the CPU for now.

Kickle Cubicle on NES, I never saw an arcade machine of it, only finding out it was an arcade port once I delved into MAME.

Life Force/Salamander is one not on this list, and is part of the Gradius timeline. You listed Gradius II and Vulcan Venture on this list, they are pretty much the same game, VV is the western revision of Gradius II. Cadash, Burning Force, Marvel Land, and Final Fight are 4 great games from 1989, damned great year for arcade games.

None, as I have zero reason to do so. I've worked a lot on building collections for each console/handheld I own, no way I let that all go to waste.

As said on the video by many, the Gameboy game, Battletoads in Ragnarok's World was missed, it is a port of Battletoads, though the cover art is different, while the game called Battletoads on the Gameboy, uses the same cover art as the NES game, but is a different game entirely. The Amiga ports, as usual, make Baby Jesus cry.

Best game, too many to name, worst game, freaking Hydlide. A friend of mine gave me this years ago, the music is painful on the ears, it had no business being on the NES for as old and damned near unplayable as it is. A good NES port of an early 80's arcade game is fine as they tend to be twitchy, but Hydlide is an early RPG/Adventure game, and it is clunky as hell.

Had a little fun with the 3 console Sailor Moon games for SFC and MD, the latter I can only play in emulation due to it's stupidly high price. The first two though are awesome to play on real hardware, but alas I play them alone, no one I know would play them with me. They aren't the best beat em ups out there, but they are still amusing.

PS1: Magical Drop 3 (120 minutes) Saturn: Magical Drop 3 (180 minutes) Magical Drop 2 (25 minutes) Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama (30 minutes) Genesis/MD: Wonderboy III Monster Lair (5 minutes) Magical Taruruto-Kun (10 minutes) Jungle Book (5 minutes) Jewel Master (5 minutes) NES: Batman Returns (10 minutes) SNES/SFC: Super Nazo Puyo (5 minutes) Super Nazo Puyo 2 (5 minutes) Bonkers (10 minutes) Pac Man 2 (5 minutes) Pac-Attack (5 minutes) Magical Drop (15 minutes) GB: Parodius Da (20 minutes) Yeah I haven't played a lot so far this year, and these are all recent purchases (except MD 3 PS1 and Saturn, unlocking characters). Time spent was testing games to make sure they worked, I got into a few of them and spent more time with them. Will likely increase time on them soon.

Emulation has only been good for one thing for me, to let me try games I'd eventually buy, so I'd not blindly buy games. The only things I'll still play in emulation are games that just cost too much to buy physical copies of.

To the OP, the SNES had a lot of games that are fun to play, not just RPG's. It's all up to what your tastes are in games. Like the Genesis, there are games for literally everyone on it. Racers, platformers, shmups, puzzlers, point and click, adventure, RPG, text based (Japan only for that genre),you name it, it had it. To me personally, I will also say the N64, needed more 2D games on it as the puzzle games for it (the Bust A Move's, the Puyo's, and Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama) are quite enjoyable. Hell, the second Goemon for it played pretty much in 2D, and out of the 3 Goemon games for the N64, it is my favorite one. That era was when I got into Sony hardware, it had more of what I wanted to play (and eventually collect imports for, same with the Sega Saturn). Not to say there isn't fun stuff that is in 3D for the N64, like the Zelda titles, and stuff like Gauntlet Legends, but I always preferred my games to be 2D, and the N64 just didn't fulfill that need for me. Have 180 SNES/SFC games, and 175 Genesis/MD games (and slowly growing for both), and to me, that is my favorite generation of games, with the 8 bit era of the NES shortly behind it. Now if you want an example of a system with good games, but not much of the great stuff released outside of Japan, the Sega Saturn is just that system. The west got so little of the goodies that Japan got, you'd swear the console has so few good games if you didn't know of what came out in Japan. It's a crime that so many of the great Saturn games never left Japan at all, but you'd not know that without the help of the internet.

There's plenty more games to cover several more volumes too. Only just scratched the surface.

Legend of the Mystical Ninja, with a patch that corrects the character names (awaiting for 2-4 to finish being translated, 3 and the Ebisumaru game are already done), the first SFC Shin Chan game, and the Mega Drive Shin Chan game.

Mega Man 4 is my favorite, followed by 3. All this Mega Man talk, yet no mention of Mega Man 8.5, aka Rockman and Forte SFC, aka Mega Man and Bass on GBA. Now that game has some tricky level design, seems like parts of it were designed for Forte/Bass to play through more so than Mega Man.

Bubble Bobble, 200 levels of arcade goodness, nice graphics that look close to the arcade version, lots of secrets, loads of goodies to get you some big points.

It remains what I like to call my white whale (argh I must be Captain Ahab then), it never goes for the price I want loose (under $40, save for copies from Japan, though it goes for $100+ there too). I have seen it a couple few times go around $40, but it's never when I have extra money to hit the Bay for. And yes, it is an extremely fun game, and that soundtrack rocks from game start, to game end.