Will start a little series here about me browsing this Club Nintendo issue from July 1995 (Nintendo Power in the US). 📖
I explicitly bought this one recently because I have so fond childhood memories. It must have been one of the few I owned and therefore read endless times. I still remember so much of the content and now I'm excited to refresh these memories.
The cover shows Asterix & Obelix, a PAL exclusive game series. 🐗
All of my friends owned a PS1 but I went for the N64 because I wanted to play Mario Kart 64 and nothing else. 😆
I played many PS1 games on my friend's consoles. That way I experienced the birth of fundamental game series like Tekken, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill, Resident Evil or GTA. :underheart:
Did you also have to make a choice for one of the two consoles? Which one did you pick and why? 🤔
Remember always sitting next to a light source when playing on my Game Boy. In the end it always was about playing as much as possible, no matter the circumstances 😆
How did you deal with the lack of light or did you even have one of these Light Max? 💡
we use plot notes (from people past) about 6 per scene, 1 memory - which concerns the hero and cutscene after the scene ends (thoughts of the hero now)
...by the limitations of the 8-bit NES, Nintendo chose to remake them for the 16-bit SNES. 🕹️
The developers based the updated designs on those from Super Mario World (1990) and strove to retain the feel of the original games. 👌
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
Had a tidy up of the games room. My favourite room of the house. Since last time I have 4 more controllers mounted on the wall, another Quest 2 - my son and I like Walkabout Minigolf - and a few more hand helds… ROG Ally and some Anbernic devices.
For some time now I was thinking about presenting #RetroTrivia not only via pictures but short video clips that don't exceed the Mastodon server's file size limit. 🗄️
Finally I arranged to capture, edit and publish my first video directly here on Mastodon. 📼
When you've got 40 seconds and want to know what going too fast in Sonic can lead to, give the video a try and me some feedback. 👌
I have never been into Beat 'em ups but have some of the classics like Streets of Rage 2 in my collection. 🥊
Are there any titles you suggest trying out although I am not the biggest fan of the genre? 🤔
I experienced the Mega Man series on Game Boy as a kid as really challenging.
Have already caught up Mega Man II and IV on NES yet and look forward to the other titles. 🤖
What are your experiences with the classic Mega Man series? :wily_ufo:
...Super Mario Land was planned as the game bundled with the launching Game Boy until Tetris was brought to Nintendo of America. 🚢
They were convinced that the addictive gameplay of Tetris would help Nintendo reach the larger audience. 👏
The company subsequently chose to bundle Tetris with every Game Boy purchase instead of Super Mario Land. 📦
...of Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country was released, which resulted in its computer-generated graphics becoming the norm for contemporary SNES games. 🤩
It was too late for the graphic designers to incorporate such a style into Yoshi's Island; instead, they pushed the hand-drawn style further as a way to "fight back". 🖍️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
...over 400 actors performed for the game. 🎬
Analyst estimations place the game's combined development and marketing budget at more than US$50 million, which would make it one of the most expensive video games to develop. 💵
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
....which were originally developed for the GameCube, were updated with many of the features that were first implemented in Corruption, such as a new control scheme based on the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. 🎮
Other changes include faster load times, updated textures, bloom lighting, and 16:9 widescreen support. 📺
The credits system from Corruption was incorporated into the first two games. 🏆
Did you experience playing a PS1 game not having a memory card, so you had to start from the beginning over and over again or let the console running over night? 🌃
...to enable a cheat or other effects. 🎮
The Konami Code was created by Gradius developers finding the game too difficult to play through during testing.
They created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). After entering the sequence using the controller when the game was paused the player received all available power-ups. 🚀