Super Famicom
Here we have all the games in the Super Famicom Section.
Super Famicom
Sports
Tackling the mammoth Paris to Moscow to Beijing Rally may not be everyone’s cup of tea and plenty of stamina is needed to get through the race. Yet due to the nature of the race, it is compelling to hang on in there like being just off the Play Offs in Football Manager. Good use of Mode 7 and various terrains even mean the screen bumps around on some levels. Just ensure to have a good navigator.
Super Famicom
Action
A varied game based on the Touchstone Pictures film with very stunning graphics considering its early release. Plenty of fight and flight action with lavish presentation that stays true to the source material.
Super Famicom
Shoot Em Up
Actually a port of ThunderForce III the seminal Saturn and more Mega Drive title of this era. Richly detailed mode 7 backgrounds compete for your attention amongst the swarms of enemy vessels. Not quite up to the mighty source material of ThunderForce III, but not much is.
Super Famicom
Action
Inspired by the weighty puppet license comes a worthy video game translation with great use of the series many vehicles such as the giant air balloon used in great effect in a shoot em up scenario. Plenty of cut scenes to remind you who the heroes are.
Super Famicom
Action
Inspired by the weighty puppet license comes a worthy video game translation with great use of the series many vehicles such as the giant air balloon used in great effect in a shoot em up scenario. Plenty of cut scenes to remind you who the heroes are.
Super Famicom
Platform
Delightful, adorable platformer but don’t let the sweet Disney characters deceive the challenge at the heart of this example of how licensed games should be done. Konami delivers yet again.
Super Famicom
Action
Konami’s delightful Tiny Toons series gets a work out for sports day. Genki is a man’s man, but even our hearts are melted by the cutesie sprites that represent the baby versions of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck et al. The gameplay is given a fine work out as Konami was riding the cusp of its 16 Bit wave with some style at the time, complete with Hollywood smile.
Super Famicom
Platform
Sound representation of the cat and mouse game to the point you’ll hear the immortal scream of Thomas. Players can cooperate as fish and footballs are bagged, the latter used as projectiles. The parallax scrolling is very impressive and the bright colours have that friendly, all American feel. The Japanese release is on the medium rare list, that’s for sure.
Super Famicom
Sports
Kashiwagi san is a suitable candidate to introduce this game and star as the prime strike fisherman. A real oyaji in terms of his appearance and actions, his presence adds much to this well made fishing title complete with plenty of lures to choose from.
Super Famicom
Action
Luckyman is the combination of one of the unluckiest boys in the world (being crushed by a UFO landing) and Luckyman. This dream combo are charged with keeping alien invaders away. It makes more sense in the manga anyway. Well not much! This action based game is subtitled Lucky Cookie Roulette.
Super Famicom
Action
Luckyman is the combination of one of the unluckiest boys in the world (being crushed by a UFO landing) and Luckyman. This dream combo are charged with keeping alien invaders away. It makes more sense in the manga anyway. Well not much! This action based game is subtitled Lucky Cookie Roulette.
Super Famicom
Sports
Try and become the hang-on hero in this Japanese based motorbike racing game with two player mode, time attack along with the season’s challenge over a variety of terrains with eleven players to choose from.
Super Famicom
RPG
The golden era of Square SFC RPG’s came to an end with this masterpiece signing off in true style. Graphically astounding proving the time it takes for developers to truly grasp the ins and outs of a system’s architecture with this surpassing many 32bit efforts. Nice to see a bit of monkey still in Square with the ability to smash barrels and rip up hedges in peoples gardens to gain extra items. And its such attention to detail that bring the Treasure Hunter world to life.
Super Famicom
Sports
A fine tribute to the sport taking a cutsey approach to representing the wrestlers and with plenty of fun that the sumo powers would be unlikely to approve of as bouts take place on beaches with rabbit umpires or on the Statue of Liberty, or as the sumos modesty gets revealed.
Super Famicom
Sports
Thoroughbred racing sim that has very well drawn horses as breeders put the foals through their paces to see if they make the trophy races or get put out to pasture.
Super Famicom
Sports
Sammy uses its arcade know-how to produce a fine version of all-American football. Players can feel a bit floaty, but the tackles are crunching bringing them back to earth. The gameplay is fast with some impressive speech. Known as Football Fury in the West.
Super Famicom
Shoot Em Up
Play as an octopus, bunny girl or tropical fish amongst the bizarre characters in Konami’s charming Parodius series. Areas include on a Japanese motorway, inside a cake and a UFO catcher game. Very refreshing in an era of too many games that take themselves far too seriously. Hats off to Konami for its self depreciating humour. Known in Japan as Gokujou Parodius.
Super Famicom
One on One Beat Em Up
A fine tribute to the silver faced superhero – fitting better than his red lycra suit. Battle various rejects from a Toho movie using Ultramans array of super slick techniques before being required to pull off the finishing move. Japan can sleep well safe in the knowledge no – one gets past this bad boy from Nebula M78, well no-one in a rubber suit that is…
Super Famicom
One on One Beat Em Up
Unbelievable to see a Super Famicom release in 2017. And some real coding might behind it too with a crack unit of ex-SNK veterans making up the A-Team.
Super Famicom
Action
Genki loves the 16 Bit Simpson titles and they are quite cult collectables in Japan with a possible lower print run due to the series being not as well known there. Yet Acclaim has really let their imagination run riot as Bart heads off on his virtual reality missions. Examples include whizzing down a water slide and cycling off into the mode 7 distance avoiding Homer on his chariot. Bart is also converted into a pig to avoid the chop from Krusty and free fellow swine. Crackling stuff.
Super Famicom
Shooter
Making great use of the FX chip to power plenty of polygons around in this tidy mech shooter where the robot can also morph into other vehicles as gameplay dictates. The graphics work well but its the gameplay ingenuity shown that makes this star shine brightly away from the black hole of gaming oblivion.
Super Famicom
Sports
FX chip utilised to full potential to generate a cutesy feel to the 3D race action. But as with every Nintendo title its the play mechanics that make this a real pleasure to play. That and the characterisation of the four different vehicles. Oh and the hidden secrets.
Super Famicom
Sports
FX chip utilised to full potential to generate a cutesy feel to the 3D race action. But as with every Nintendo title its the play mechanics that make this a real pleasure to play. That and the characterisation of the four different vehicles. Oh and the hidden secrets.
Super Famicom
Sports
Bring up your wee foal to become a champion stallion. Just don’t hang around with the shady characters at the Tokyo Race Course too much though…
Super Famicom
Action
Well worthy of its Famitsu award for excellence performing what seemed only possible on a high end PC at the time and bringing the first person shooter to the Super Famicom. A critical title in the development of the genre in the pre-Doom era, its Wolfenstein’s speed and wartime atmosphere that brought the game such high praise. Just as playable today.
Super Famicom
Sports
Good take on the sport that covers the basics of the game well, perhaps being quite a difficult sport to cover with rucks, mauls, line outs and scrums to include. Yet the freedom to run as the ball breaks free makes this good fun as players bid to capture the cup.
Super Famicom
One on One Beat Em Up
Often labelled a Street Fighter clone, World Heroes has far more to its repertoire to deserve being tagged as a mere wanabee of Capcoms Colossus. A fine roster of special moves from the fine ADK resume along with interesting button interpretation using length of press to determine power to get round the four button Neo Geo controller in the original incarnations. The rings can also be set alive with lethal traps in the Death Mode to ensure a lively bout with devious satisfaction to be had in finishing off an opponent, only to watch as they drift into the electric fence in slow motion.
Super Famicom
Sports
Thrilled footy fans with the stars of the day standing out in recognisable form despite the lack of proper name license. The hard work that went into the players sprite appearance still has charm today. Plenty of space to exploit in terms of playing area with quick, well timed passes require to succeed just as in the real game.
Super Famicom
Sports
Konami changed the rules of the game with this sublime release. Combining easy pick up and play mechanics with a slick passing system, it took the patience of a Dutch master to be able to fully manipulate players to perform deft overhead flicks and inch perfect through balls. But the real thrill came in being able to recognise the stars of the world game for the first time in front of your very eyes. The pass master, the original.
Super Famicom
Platform
The Super Famicom has more platformers than commuters on the Yamanote Line first thing but this true classic platformer stands head and shoulders above the rest like an NBA player on the same train. Xandra is on a mission through the mystical land of Valkyrie to get medicine for his sick son. The main character looks like a green jelly baby but some of the gameplay is so ingenious and fresh, even after so many platform releases on the SFC. Tragically overlooked in the West. Xandra carries a tiger fork with which to attack enemies, but remains vulnerable if it gets stuck in the ground causing frantic panic to unwedge it. The star level is particularly remarkable as the platforms appear and disappear from view in a Tanabata inspired journey through the stars. This is the pure essence of gameplay that endeared fans to the format and many still wander the gaming scene in search of a return to such heady days. Bravo Namcot.