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Good recommendations so far. You might want to get the Super Mario Collection, or whatever it was called, instead of SMW, as that's got all the console Mario games up to and including SMW.
R-Type III is one of the best shooters ever made. It holds up to the series' high standards, despite being the first console-exclusive version. Scaling and rotation used to liven the levels up significantly - the first one has you razzing through an exploding structure, the level structure spinning about and keeping you on your toes, bosses that zoom in and out of the back/foreground.
Difficult, like most R-Type games, but once you learn to embrace that difficulty it's hard to let go. And it's never unfairly hard - you'll only ever lose lives through your own mistakes.
Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius. Got to admit that I've not played the SNES version of this - I've got the Saturn conversion, but as I understand it, they're largely similar. I've just tried it out in an emulator, but my joypad's bust, so I didn't get very far.
Not often that games do funny well, but Parodius always manages to hit the right note. Lots of jokes for people who know Gradius/Nemesis, Salamander/Life Force and Konami games in general. The Gradius powerup system is still great, but I've always prefered this series - it's not as dry, it's got far more personality, the challenge feels fairer. There's added challenge with each level hiding a set of bonus points, with the game keeping a check on how many you've managed to find in all the times you've played it.
Actually, all the Parodius games are great. Jikkyou's the best of the three that made it to the SNES, but you might also want to try Parodius and Gokujou Parodius (Fantastic Journey in the US and UK). Lots more info on them here.
Yoshi's Island. Personally, I prefer this to SWM. It's still one of the most gorgeous games you can play - nothing else has ever come close to its fat felt tip backgrounds, nor its story book intro with wind-up music box soundtrack. It's more linear than SMW, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Bosses are all amazing - getting swallowed by a giant frog, being chased around the moon by a huge blackbird. It also offers more in terms of hidden challenge than SMW.
Phox> You should be able to pick up a second hand SNES from plenty of places. As well as those alredy mentioned, you might want to try indie game stores (if they sell used games, they're very likely to have the consoles to go with them) or car boot sales.
I'd definitely recommend thinking about getting yuorself a US SNES, though, rather than a PAL UK one. My heart breaks every time I turn my PAL console on and end up reminded of how little concern publishers had for the European market at the time - games were often destroyed by poor PAL conversions (I always hear how Stunt Race FX is a great game, but the PAL version, at least, has a frame rate so jerky and a game screen area so small that I find it unplayable). The US hardware's pretty ugly, but it'll allow you to play both US and Japanese games without having to piss about with convertor carts - again, the best place for the games is probably eBay. |
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