I knew that Nintendo started as a Hanafuda card company. And I know a good amount about Nintendo since the release of the NES, but I didn't know all of that middle part. And for a guy with a Triforce tattooed to his chest, you would think I would have known a little more about the company. Thanks for sharing this with me! I am an avid gamer, and Nintendo has always been my favorite, mostly because of the "Legend of Zelda" series and the "Super Mario" series. To this date LTTP and OOT are still on my top ten favorite games of all time! Super Mario Brothers 3 is probably my all time favorite game.
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Fantastic! Nice to see another Nintendo fan :) I never played too many Zelda games, though I am currently playing through LTTP on my SNES Retro (I was super excited when that came out, btw). However, I have played a good number of the Mario games over the years and am a huge fan! Super Mario Brothers 3 is a fantastic game, though I still think I'm partial to Super Mario World myself. If you like RPG's, and you haven't already played it, you should definitely check out "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars." That game is a blast! I still remember playing it with one of my best friends on our original Super Nintendo's, heh.
RPG's are my next favorite games on the list, after Zelda and Mario, the Final Fantasy games are towards the top of my favorites list as well. FFVII all the way. Legend of the Seven Stars is one of the best Mario games ever, and the precursor game to all of the Paper Mario Series. If you get stuck at ANY point on "LTTP", feel free to let me know. I know that game better than the back of my hand. Aside from the graphics, I actually like LTTP better than OOT. I have found a video on youtube that perfectly describes how I feel about the two games. Sequelitus: LTTP vs. OOT. Fun little video to watch. I have done a challenge run where I sat down on a new profile and pounded out the entire game. Picked up all the hearts and every in game item and killed the final boss, with no deaths, in about 7 hours.
Geez, that's impressive! I'm not too far, but I've already died once, heh. LTTP is a definitely a fun game though, and the mechanics are actually pretty well done for it's time. I've noticed recently that some of the games from that time period really are terrible when it comes to how responsive they are. I guess I just never noticed it as a kid.
As for Final Fantasy, my personal favorite is FFVI. I just thought the game was fantastic all the way around. I never got too far in FFVII, much to my regret. I had it for Playstation and loaned it to a friend before I got too far into the game. He returned it with a missing disk which he never did find...
I'll definitely check the video out. I don't take it you recorded your own challenge run?
I did not record that challenge run. It was a few years ago the last time I actually did it. But, that isn't a bad idea for a post. I may just have to do that.
That really sucks about the missing disk from FFVII. It is probably my favorite game in the series. I like the fact that by the end of the game, you have literally explored EVERY part of the world, from the deepest trenches of the ocean, to the frozen poles of the planet. You even have a short stint orbiting the planet in a rocket. And it was the first TRUE 3D RPG game. Instead of the "top view down-yet strangely seen from the side", it added the ACTUAL third demension to the characters and map areas. Truly a revolutionary game for it's time.
Haha,
It's funny cause it's true, but I had never thought it it in that way before... Yeah, I'll have to get around to downloading a ROM at some point and playing through it again. It's just tough to find enough time to dedicate to a game like that these days.
VII? Nah man, you can bust that game out in about 30 hours and have pretty decent stuff and a fairly decent fight with the final boss. Course you kinda have to know where you are going and what you are looking for to do that. I remember getting stuck on one part for DAYS! It was really frustrating. Probably spent a good 15 hours of gameplay over one week looking for one stupid switch, until a kid at school told me where it was. Then I felt stupid for not seeing it before. But these things happen. Nature of video games I suppose.
Oh yeah, there's always that one thing in that one game you overlook. I remember back in the day, my brother and I played Jurassic Park on the SNES. We did everything we were supposed to do to beat the game, but we never did it in the right order, which makes it impossible to win. We must have tried half a dozen times before we gave up. Years later I looked it up online and sure enough, we knocked that game out in a day.