Why did I ever leave you?

Ah, the SNES. Home to the best Final Fantasy game (VI, obviously), a whole bunch of seriously weird stuff, and some of the best geek experiences known to man.

Yay for emulators.

 

Mario RPG was actually a solid RPG experience.

 

While emulators are awesome, there is something lost when you play a game on it. Even if you use a gamepad or something, there is something just not quite right about it.

Given the choice, I'd prefer to play on a real system.

 

Whyn't just import an American SNES whilst you're at it?

 

The slot where the cartridge fits just needs to be altered in some way to allow American games to be played.
But god damn...I love my SNES. I've spent countless hours of my life playing Chrono Trigger, getting all the different endings, finding the best party combos to beat Spekkio at the End of Time, seeing how quickly I could hammer Lavos into dust...My greatest achievement so far is beating Lavos the first time you ever fight him in the game, and not in New Game Plus mode.
I also played the hell out of Kirby Superstar, the first three Megaman X games, and Yoshi's Island.
More recently, a friend of mine and I were playing Super Mario World while stoned and we kicked the shit out of the Awesome Levels (you know, the levels above the Star Road).
So many memories with that little grey box...

 

QFT. No SNES experience will ever top 4-player Bomberman. 3-player Secret of Mana comes close, though.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I believe FF 2 (in America) was far and away the best console RPG ever programmed. I may just show it a little extra favortism since it was my first console RPG that didn't include "Dragon" & "Warrior" in the title. I did like 3's (VI's) steampunk setting though.

 

I've always been torn between which game was better - FFIV or FFVI.

In the end I think I lean a bit more towards FFIV though I think that could be because it was the game that got me interested in RPGs, both in tabletop and video game form. I've loved Cecil's struggle between duty and justice.

 

I love my gamepads for the PC. I have a really high-tech one for newer games (PSU), and an old-fashioned one for older stuff like emulators. Yeeeee!

I totally need to go get Secret of Mana or something.

 

I just looked at the James Bond game on ebay, while I am a fan of the 64 multiplayer version DO NOT buy the SNES version. I can easily say Mario Bros will much better. And thats fucking saying something.

 

I was pretty young when I played Mario RPG (can't remember when, but I was under 8 and at least 6), and it was I guess my first RPG, and it was pretty epic, but probably because I was so young.

 

That retro hobby shop near my place with all the old consoles has some kind of double decker NES/SNES dual cart console. I don't remember what it was called but it was only about $50.

 

Every country except the US used the same version of the SNES console.
I don't even know what the purpose of that was, aside from just keeping people from importing games to America. It's one step above a language barrier, too, which leads me to believe that Nintendo of America is run by a bunch of xenophobes.
Adapters for the cartridges were advertised at the back of gaming magazines I used to have subscriptions to, but I don't know where you could find them now.

 

I can't recall playing on a SNES... I remember the original Nintendo, and then the Sega, but I can't recall a SNES. The two games I recall playing're Mortal Kombat and Postal.

 

Well, Postal is just good clean American fun. Gameplay was similar to Syndicate Wars but you ran solo...and all of the blood, ha ha ha!