Reviews
150 SNES games reviewed #21: Exhaust Heat (aka F1 ROC: Race of Champions)
Exhaust Heat (released in North America as F1 ROC: Race of Champions) was a racing game developed by Seta for the SNES. It was released in 1992. The game had to work against the odds to get noticed having come after Nintendo’s own F-Zero. F-Zero had pulled out all of the Mode 7 graphical tricks that …
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150 SNES games reviewed #13: Mecarobot Golf
So you have a game which is basically a vehicle for a real life star, but you find out that he is only a star in your country, and no one else knows who he is, so what do you do? You could just remove the connection to the star and hope the game sells …
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150 SNES games reviewed #12: Wing Commander
I’m not sure how many of you will have heard of Wing Commander. It’s a long running franchise which started out on PC which was then ported to various systems including the SNES, hence me talking about it. Wing Commander can basically be called a space combat simulation. It wasn’t the first game of its type …
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150 SNES games reviewed #11: Championship Pool
Championship Pool came out in 1993 and, as you can obviously tell from the title, it is a pool simulation. It was released for the NES, SNES, Game Boy and the Mega Drive. It was developed by Bitmasters and released by Mindscape. The game is straightforward, it is a virtual version of pool, in which …
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150 SNES games reviewed #10: Super Metroid
So many games had the word super stuck on the front, I suppose it is only natural, part of it was a marketing gimmick obviously a way to let people know that this machine was so far beyond the last one that it required that label. Unfortunately a lot of games didn’t live up to …
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150 SNES games reviewed #9: Super Goal! 2 (aka Takeda Nobuhiro no Super Cup Soccer)
I have plainly admitted on most days it has been a case of stick my hand in the box, and providing the game is not the same genre as one I have played in the past few days, I play it and then talk about it. I did things a little bit differently this time, I actually …
150 SNES games reviewed #8: Power Moves (aka Power Athlete)
Rule number one if you are going to try to make money by copying another game is to make sure you get a copy of the game you’re trying to copy and play the living daylights out of it. Sit and analyse it. Try to see why it is so popular, and what your game …
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Video: Pedz previews Claybook
Hi all. It’s been a little while since I did a retro stream for GRcade as I’ve been busy, but thought I’d share this video about Claybook. Check it out and let me know what you think.
150 SNES games reviewed: #7 Krusty’s Super Fun House
No TV series makes it past 20 series without someone realising it has the potential to sell a lot of other stuff by association. The Simpsons was a largely adult-humoured comedy which children seemed to become obsessed with. So it was no surprise when the Bart vs. this and that games started to pour on …
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150 SNES games reviewed: #6 The Rocketeer
So I tried to play The Rocketeer and prior to the game starting there were a few screens with drawings and words, but with my Japanese copy they were of very little help. The game starts and what I am met with is nothing like I imagined. In my head this game was a 2D R-Type …
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