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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

SNES was my favorite console because it was technically primitive enough the devs had to design around it's limitations, but advanced enough that the gameplay itself could still be complex.

Hundreds of SNES games still look good and play well. With PSX/N64 generation onwards, the drive to make things look "better" resulted in visuals aging horribly.

Link to the Past still looks and plays great. Ocarina of Time (while a great game) looks like crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The SNES is an amazing console, I actually had a dream last night about discovering a long lost secret level in super mario world. In the dream it turned out that the level in the final area that has a secret ending creating a path directly to bowser (bipassing the castle level) actually had a second secret ending leading to an entierly new short path ending in a ghost house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Totally agreed. SNES hit that sweet spot of being the pinnacle of 2D consoles right before the awkward years of early 3D.