Kick your feet up, grab a drink, and enjoy!īefore Dave Perry was selling the cartoon rights to garden-based invertebrates for millions of dollars, he was designing platformers like this for Virgin. It's all part of the fun and joy that comes with reading a 'Top' list. may you even find a game or two you never heard of, or overlooked, or disregarded in the past. but most of all, as you read through this list, may you recall fondly just why the SNES is one of the very best of all time. For the first time EVER in internet history (that's a hard feat to pull off these days, as you know), Super Play Magazine's Top 100 Super Nintendo Video Games feature has been transferred to the CyberSpace Madness. This is my contribution to the "20 Years of Super Famicom Awesomeness" party. Expect a few Super Mario World shout-outs as well. No doubt you will have many fans creating noise this upcoming weekend with all sort of reflective and nostalgic "I can't believe it was 20 years ago today!" posts, pieces and articles. 20 years and over a thousand game library. It's crazy to think 20 years ago this system hit the market and would go on to carve numerous memories for gamers the world over. Tomorrow marks the 20th Anniversary of the beloved Super Famicom. With excitement and reverence, I turned the page. I know I was having a total geek-out moment, but who cares when you're having this much fun. What game was #1? Which games got snubbed?ĭid my favorite obscure gems make the cut? Will Rise of the Robots finally get the accolades it so richly deserves? Maybe not that one, but my mind was racing and so was my heart rate. Sometimes I agree, and sometimes I don't, but the joy comes in seeing how different people are affected fondly by different gamesĪfter washing my hands with soap, I eagerly worked my way to the epochal feature. While I know some gamers hate these sort of lists, I always approached them as a fun way to see someone's taste in gaming. I never take any sort of 'Top' list as the Bible, but I always love reading different opinions and different takes. See Sega Saturn Magazine Top 50 Part 1 for more. EGM's Top 100 back in November 1997 ranks as one of my fondest EGM memories (of which is no easy feat) and as you may know, I also loved Sega Saturn Magazine's Top 50 list so much that I even converted it to the web and later this site. Right there on the gorgeous anime art-esque front cover (Wil Overton rocks!) was a proud banner that revealed an ambitious Top 100 SNES games feature. I had enjoyed reading the first 41 "SPLAY" issues tremendously, but I nearly dropped a load when I picked up ish #42. I can honestly say it was the sort of "once-in-a-lifetime eBay win" that legends are made of laughing at the silly captions, their infamous sense of humor (hey, where do you think I got the stuff from?), eating up their blow-out reviews and reveling in their unique presentation top to bottom. The long excruciating months of agony, the up-and-down roller coaster emails: VINDICATED AT LAST! What followed was some of the most fun reading I've ever had that holiday season of 2006. I wasn't expecting any other packages at the time so I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that my HOLY GRAIL baby had finally come home. I still recall fondly the excitement coursing through my veins when I saw the mail lady turn off the engine to make her way to the back of the mail truck. I was lucky enough to win it for fairly cheap, and when it finally arrived moons later (as readers of The Super Play Drama may recall), Super Play hardly disappointed. Luck be my lady - an auction for damn near the entire 47-issue set cropped up on eBay not too long after. Being a huge fan of old gaming mags, I knew I had to get my hands on it. When I got back into the Super Nintendo nearly 5 years ago, I had heard about a British SNES publication called Super Play Magazine.
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