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Posted by Joe (@joe) on Oct. 30, 2024, 11:06 p.m.

I had Street Fighter Alpha 2 on SNES. I got it for Christmas in 1998, and it was the only SNES version of Street Fighter available at the time.
As far as what I was playing in 1997, I remember renting Secret of Mana over the summer and loving it, but it wasn’t possible to find a new copy so I got Secret of Evermore for Christmas that year. Around that time I got into the Exile games, which were indie computer RPGs that were remades as the Avernum series that Tabs and I have been talking about. I got the extensive demos of the Exile trilogy in 1997 and got the full version of the first one for my birthday in spring of 1998.

Secret of Mana was supposed to be the flagship game for the aborted SNES-CD. It’s not hard to tell where they had to cut some stuff out.

I keep forgetting that Metroid 2 remake exists, and I think there’s more than one?

There was an officially released version that I didn’t play, and AM2R, an illegal, copyright violating version that Nintendo served an Cease and Desist against, but it didn’t matter because it’s a computer game that was given away for free, so once it was on the internet it was never going away. The legal version is the only side scrolling Metroid game I’ve never played. AM2R is my 2nd favorite Metroid game (I’ve only played the side scrolling games though) after Super Metroid. At this point I enjoy AM2R more.

I definitely did not know what Sega Master System was until after Genesis was popular. Maybe I’m remember incorrectly and I was always at least vaguely aware of Playstation, but I was not aware of the Master System when it was current. I’d heard of Sega Saturn but nobody I knew had one.

but I would have definitely missed a few bonus areas and such.

If you don’t find all of the bonus areas, you can’t fight the FINAL final boss (which is just K. Rool again). But you only need 15 bonus coins to play all of the other bonus levels if you save before playing any of them and then don’t save after beating them. In the third game it doesn’t work like that, and you have to play them in order.

You should play Link’s Awakening. Just play it on emulator if you don’t want to buy it. It’s great.