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90s Video Game Review: Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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90s moviesIt was Christmas morning, 1991. A hyperactive, super-excited, greedy little version of myself crept down the steps of my childhood home after my father had given the go-ahead. He always had this annoying ritual of setting up the video camera before my sister and I could come to claim our rightful cornucopia of presents.

After opening what seemed like hundreds of lesser presents including action figures, hygiene products, movies, and unwanted clothing, the two of us were like two starving puppies wondering why the top item on both of our Christmas lists, the Super Nintendo, was nowhere to be found.

In what seemed at the time to be a heartlessly cruel jape, my parents exclaimed “Oh, it looks like you guys missed one!” and proceeded to produce a nondescript box covered in reindeer wrapping paper. As we hastily tore the useless adornments from the magically mysterious final gift, we realized it was what we had always dreamed of. Finally, the glistening gray and purple rectangular prism of infinite awesomeness was presented to us. As our eyes glazed over and our mouths gaped open in wide wonder, we realized that we were now official owners of a SUPER NINTENDO.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (aka Super Famicom, Super NES, SNES, Super Nintendo, or Jesus Christ incarnate) is a 16-bit video game console that was unleashed upon the adoring Nintendo-centric public in North America in 1991.

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90s Video Game Review: Final Fantasy II (SNES)

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90s moviesAs a child of the early 90s, every Friday night in suburbia was a mixed bag of excitement and choice anxiety. My parents would haul me and a friend to Blockbuster Video in our spacious, maroon Toyota Camry to pick out some mindless entertainment for the evening. I was allowed to rent one film and one video game and there were no exceptions.

The film was an obvious choice, as I was quickly becoming a horror connoisseur and I could always find a forgettable, disgustingly bloody cinematic masterpiece to fulfill that quota. Whether it was something from the Children of the Corn, Halloween, Friday the 13th, or Nightmare on Elm Street franchises, it always proved a great accessory to a bag of Doritos and a two liter bottle of Mountain Dew.

However, I faced many a bout of choice anxiety having to pick out the video game. There were too many options and game types available to choose from. SNES was home to quite a few pieces of vaporware as well, so you didn’t want to make your decision too rashly. The consequences could be dire.

90s moviesI believe it was the giant sword on the cover and the simplicity of the design that made me first delve into the realm of RPG goodness. While some may consider lands full of dungeons, dragons, ninjas, monsters, and magical crystals a geeky endeavor, they’ve obviously never had the masochistic pleasure of playing through Final Fantasy II for the SNES.

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90s Video Game Review: Yoshi’s Island

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The 90s movies.net staff spends so much time watching 90s movies that some might find it hard to believe that we can find time to play 90s video games. We’ll always make room for the classics.

90s moviesMario Mario (yes, his last name is also Mario) is a beloved video game character whose reach and appeal spans all generations, IQs, and demographics. His colorful, pixelated worlds existed across many different video game systems, genres, and languages. The pudgy little plumber transcends all boundaries. Let’s just say the man has pull.

90s moviesWith the Super Nintendo Entertainment system in its pinnacle of popularity, it was unthinkable that Nintendo’s main man and his sidescrolling super video game series took a four year hiatus after Mario’s initial launch game. For gamers, however, it was a blessing in disguise as we were presented with one of the finest 2-D sidescrollers ever conceived of: Yoshi’s Island.

90s moviesNintendo decided to try something new with this game and begged for fans to leave their preconceived notions about their favorite Italian stallion at the door. The plot of the game takes the form of a prequel. Baby Mario and baby Luigi are newborns on their way home when, suddenly, they are attacked by Kamek, a magical koopa wizard and the main protagonist of the game. Kamek only manages to get a hold of baby Luigi as baby Mario is sent hurling to the ground and winds up on Yoshi’s Island. The Yoshis discover the adorable little tyke and decide to undertake a quest to reunite the brothers and defeat the evil Kamek and his minions.

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90s Video Game Review: Mortal Kombat II (SNES)

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90s moviesWhile critics insulted and panned the original Mortal Kombat, Acclaim came back to throw a much more disgusting, sadistic, fun game in their faces with this 90s video game sequel. Mortal Kombat II is simply one of the best fighting games of all time.

While the plot is pretty razor thin, it’s still somewhat interesting and worth the time to read it over on your first play through. The villains who won the original Mortal Kombat tournament have opened a portal leading to Outworld and the heroes must fight in the tournament to save the Earth from destruction.

90s moviesWhile the fatalities in the original Mortal Kombat weren’t that impressive and lacked style, the sequel spares no expense at making them bloodier, more violent, more disgusting. It’s times like these I am glad to be a gamer. Kung Lao’s fatality of slicing the opponent in half down the middle is still a gory favorite of mine. Jax also has a pretty funny one where he rips off the opponents arms as a fountain of blood sprays from the sockets. Fortunately, every character has their fair share of disgusting finishers.

90s moviesAlso, the stage-oriented finishers are pretty exciting too like uppercutting people into pits of spikes or pools of acid. Acclaim knows what their fans want.

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90s Video Game Review: Chrono Trigger

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I was a snot-nosed little rabscallion when I was introduced to, quite possibly, the most influential and inspiring piece of software ever to grace a home console system. In all my years of being entranced by bright pixels and engrossing game worlds, I had never been captivated by a game so completely as by Chrono Trigger on the SNES.

Chrono Trigger, at its core, is a game about a ragtag group of adventurers spanning many time periods who must work together to prevent global destruction at the hands of a being known only as Lavos. Throughout the epic journey, players are engaged with fully-developed characters and an intriguing and well-crafted storyline that still reigns supreme, in my mind, as the greatest game of all time.

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