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Best SNES Games: Platformer Edition

Mini Fortress writes:

"Last week I published Best SNES Games: RPG Edition, a new article for Mini Fortress that explored some of the best RPGs to hit the Super Nintendo. As this will be an ongoing series intended to explore most genres, this week I’ve decided to get away from dungeon crawling and turn-based battling to look at platformers, perhaps one of the most popular genres from the early nineties."

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Interview: Groovin’ On a New Donkey Kong Country Tribute Album

TheSenorCheese|136d ago |Interview|1|

Mega Mixtape has some good grooves coming in, and Gamerhub UK talks more with them.

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It’s bananas! Donkey Kong Country turns 30 today

edureboucas|555d ago |Article|7|

Donkey Kong Country, one of Rare’s most celebrated games on the Super Nintendo is three decades-old!

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CrimsonWing69555d ago

We be old.

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PRIMORDUS555d ago

I stil have the VHS tape Nintendo mailed to Nintendo Power subscribers. https://m.media-amazon.com/...

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Kakashi Hatake554d ago

I got this game with a Super Nintendo on Christmas '94. Ridiculous to think that was 30 years ago.

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LG_Fox_Brazil554d ago

My parents got me this one the year it was released, good Lord, I am old. Masterpiece, by the way

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Profchaos554d ago

Yeah I remember one Christmas morning opening up a Gameboy bundled with DK land that was an under rated port Nintendo was foolish to let rare go

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Knightofelemia554d ago (Edited 554d ago )

I still have this game my mother bought it for me on my birthday along with Killer Instinct.

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RonsonPL551d ago (Edited 551d ago )

1. Animation is better than 99,99% of sidescrolled platform games released in 2020-2024
Just look at the shitty, clunky and downright amateur animations in games being made now.
2. Graphics still look better on CRT or 4K TV via retrotink or proper CRT filter, compared to 90% platform games released in 2024. It has a nice style. It was one of its kind. Now 99% of indie games in the genre look the same, generic, ugly, infantile, sterile, "paper like" or with "realistic" vibe which only makes things dull, washed out and ugly.
3. The gameplay and polish is on a different level.
4. We don't even have clear motion in gaming anymore. You can see HIGHER RESOLUTION of the image in this 30 year old game than when you play new shit on 4K TV without BFI/backlight strobing
5. The game doesn't put me off with infantile design. This game was for everyone, with respect to male adult gamers, unlike it is now, where we get a big middle finger.
6. Music. I don't think I even need to type anything here. Modern games will either give you generic crap, or some melanholic sad pianos or japaneese pop vibes (to the delight of the John from Digital Foundry ;) )

And lastly:
Let me just remind you: This game ran on a console equipped with 256KB of RAM.

I remember seeing DKC advertisement (or was it just gamplay being showd on some gaming related TV progam? Not sure) on TV in 1994. I was blown away. I couldn't believe my eyes and I wanted this game so badly.
30 years later I want games ON THIS LEVEL as badly as I wanted to play DKC back then. But back then, I only needed a few years until emulators showed up (My country didn't have Nintendo distribution in SNES times). This time I'm waiting more already.

Highest quality side scrolled platform game genre regressed so badly. :(
There's like 1 very good game per 3-5 years, if you don't like infantilism, stealth and sad/horror games. Or anime, like what they did to Prince of Persia in its newest side scrolled installment (God.. whyy....:( )

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Everything Revealed In Donkey Kong Country Park Nintendo Direct - The Guide Hall

ausamson|564d ago |News|0|

Donkey Kong Country Park will open in Universal Studios Japan on December 11, 2024. It's a immersive park set in Donkey Kong Country.

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