PAGE 6: Well, there's Link to the Past. That couldn't have been Game of the Decade, could it? Naw. I mean, it's a good game, but it doesn't compare to the glory of Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. SF2 retains "almost every last detail" of the arcade original, fer cryin' out loud!
Gives you an idea how things worked in 1993; arcade games were top of the line, home console games were bare imitations, and home computer games were all Mavis Beacon.
Note the the SNES is advertised as having "dazzling 3-D graphics." Yeah, I guess so. But how does it stack up to the arcade version?
And can you believe how cheap the first-party extra controllers are? $18! I guess that's because you never really needed one unless one of your two packed-in controllers got run over by a bus.
PAGE 7: I always forget how much I hated the Michael Myers era of SNL until I see one of those awful, leering Wayne's World press photos.
Great first line on the Batman Returns capsule: "Batman has never been more huge."
PAGE 8: Can you believe that a Star Wars game gets a tiny little corner deep in the SNES ghetto on page 8? I know you won't believe me, but in 1993, Star Trek was king. Crazy, but true.
I hope you're keeping track of the SNES price range: LTTP (which was last year's model) starts the scale at $50... and PURE GEMS like Super NBA Basketball and Fatal Fury top it off at $68... with most games landing at $60. Man, them cartridge years were a bitch. If somebody today tried to charge me $60 for a game like Yoshi's Cookie, I'd shit down their throat.
PAGE 9: This is wild. Still selling the NES, now bundled with SMB3 for $90! Wow. Do you think that EB takes all their current trade-ins and then sends them back in time where they can sell them for big dough... like copies of the Mr. Dream version of Punch-Out for $30. If anybody is going to figure out time travel, it's these guys. I've heard them talk.
Next time: portables!
