SNES, to me, is where video gaming turned the corner in to a serious market. The stepup to 16 bit graphics was a marked leap from the blocky/chunky look of the Atari 2600/Atari 5200/Intellivision/Colecovision/and even 8 bit NES days, to a smoother, more flowing video game experience.
You also had the first, somewhat, ergonomic controller. The Atari 2600 controller had been a nightmare. The 8 bit NES controller...who the heck ever thought square corners on a controller was a good idea was a moron. The SNES gave you actually rounded edges, and gave a small hint to the future controllers such as the Playstation/PS2/PS3 controllers.
N64 had that crazy ass "Batarang" controller that was highly uncomfortable for anyone over the age of 8. It stuck with severely limited, more expensive, cartridge format when PS1 had already proved the CD-ROM based systems were the way to go. Nintendo took a bath on that one.
When I sold off my old game systems (NES, Sega Genesis, the disaster knwon as the Sega CD) I actually put my SNES in the box to go to the game store, but as I started to put the cartridges in...I couldn't do it! There were so many great games on that system. I still reguraly sit down and fire it up. I like the fact I can sit down, turn it on, play for 5 minutes and walk away. No load times. No 30 minutes of RPG playing to find 1 fight. Just good old, shoot 'em up fun.
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Date: 2006-06-27 05:18 pm (UTC)You also had the first, somewhat, ergonomic controller. The Atari 2600 controller had been a nightmare. The 8 bit NES controller...who the heck ever thought square corners on a controller was a good idea was a moron. The SNES gave you actually rounded edges, and gave a small hint to the future controllers such as the Playstation/PS2/PS3 controllers.
N64 had that crazy ass "Batarang" controller that was highly uncomfortable for anyone over the age of 8. It stuck with severely limited, more expensive, cartridge format when PS1 had already proved the CD-ROM based systems were the way to go. Nintendo took a bath on that one.
When I sold off my old game systems (NES, Sega Genesis, the disaster knwon as the Sega CD) I actually put my SNES in the box to go to the game store, but as I started to put the cartridges in...I couldn't do it! There were so many great games on that system. I still reguraly sit down and fire it up. I like the fact I can sit down, turn it on, play for 5 minutes and walk away. No load times. No 30 minutes of RPG playing to find 1 fight. Just good old, shoot 'em up fun.
All that is why I love the SNES so.