Reviews
150 SNES games reviewed #39: James Pond’s Crazy Sports (aka The Super Aquatic Games)
You have your Sonics and your Marios, then there are all the lesser-known platforming heroes – some of which are in games which could rival the likes of the above and others who are in games that are poor, pale imitations. If you owned an Amiga there were certain characters you were bound to know …
150 SNES games reviewed #38: Looney Tunes: Road Runner (aka Road Runner’s Death Valley Rally)
What is in a name? I often find it funny when the name of a game gets changed from region to region. Sometimes there are legal reasons, sometimes they just think a particular name will help something sell better to a certain group of people. Here we have a game known in Europe as Looney …
150 SNES games reviewed #37: Spindizzy Worlds
Spindizzy Worlds is a puzzle game published by Activision, originally released on the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990, which was then ported to the SNES by Ascii Entertainment. The game is a sequel to the 1986 video game Spindizzy which was released on early home computers such as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX …
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150 SNES games reviewed #36: Super Strike Eagle
Super Strike Eagle for the SNES was both developed and released by MicroProse. Yes, that MicroProse. MicroProse was a US video game publisher and developer, founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and the one and only Sid Meier. It developed and published numerous games, many of which are fondly remembered either to this day as …
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150 SNES games reviewed #35: UN Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a side-scrolling shooting game which came out in arcades in 1989. It was programmed by Capcom and released for use on their CPS arcade hardware. I won’t explain what this was but if you look back at my Final Fight review there is an explanation there. The game was released in Japan …
150 SNES games reviewed #34: Power Drive
When I buy retro games they tend to belong to one of three categories. They are games which I owned as a kid and want to get again because I have fond memories of them, games I remember friends owning and which I have fond memories of playing at their houses, or are games which …
150 SNES games reviewed #33: Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
If I was to say Rare in relation to games to most people then they would probably think about the Nintendo 64 and about Banjo-Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007. To me though Rare are so much more than that. I can remember their NES games and I also remember even …
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150 SNES games reviewed #32: NBA All-Star Challenge
The game I am going to be talking about is NBA All-Star Challenge. It was developed by Beam Software and published by LJN (Acclaim in japan). It was released in Europe in 1993. Back when I was younger there was only one NBA game that ever got plugged into my SNES, and there was only …
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150 SNES games reviewed #31: Alien 3
Alien 3 was developed by Probe Entertainment and Eden Entertainment Software, published In North America, Europe, and Japan by Arena Entertainment, Acclaim Entertainment, LJN, and Virgin Interactive. It is half-based on the film Alien 3. I have to say half-based because it’s set on the prison planet from the film and Ripley is shaved bald, …
150 SNES games reviewed #30: Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Kart – what can I say about it that you won’t all have heard a million times? I cant even build anticipation by trying to hold my opinion back until the end and starting this review by talking facts and figures. So let’s just start by saying I love this game and work …
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