It's Roughly 1990 in Gaming

On 07/31/2023 at 03:21 PM by KnightDriver

It's almost August when I will be focusing my retro gaming on the 90s. That's NES, Genesis, SNES, PS and N64 for me. I don't have a Saturn anymore, never had a TG-16 or Neo Geo, and I didn't play handheld games until the DS. However I do now have the option to play Game Boy and GBC games on my Gamecube's GameBoy Player. So I may break that out too. Here's a list of stuff I'm interested in from 1990, more or less.

Dragon Quest IV: Availability: NES but too expensive and apparently Android. I may look into that.

Final Fantasy III: Available on Switch/PS4 I'm told.

Phantasy Star II: On Sega Genesis Classics.

Super Mario World: SNES (probably expensive), and Switch with membership. Got it!

Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (Switch? I'll gonna look).

Magic Sword: on Capcom Arcade Stadium 2.

Final Fight: On Capcom Beat 'em Up Bundle.

Parodius From Myth to Laughter: A Konami cute-em-up I sooo want to play but is not available in America. Rats!

Final Fantasy Legend II: I own the GameBoy version but it's also on Switch and Windows.

Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon: I don't see an option to play this yet. Maybe it's on Steam though?

Ys II: I looked up the DS game since my PSP died and I traded in my PSP version. They didn't have it and it may end up being $100, so I will likely not get that.

Castlevania III: Castlevania Anniversary Collection. Maybe I can do better in this one?

Mega Man 3: I have the Legacy Collection on Xbox. I hope I do better than I did with 2.

Bonk's Adventure: A very expensive NES cart or on Wii Virtual Console if I bought it years ago. I have a memory of playing a game with a kid who uses his head a lot, so... maybe I have this then? Gonna have to break out the Wii to find out.

Herzog Zwei: Genesis Mini 2 and Switch. For historic reasons. I may find it impenetrable.

PGA Tour Golf: Genesis/SNES. I own a Genesis cart and will play it again. My friend and I used to play this series on Genesis a lot in the 90s.

Anything cool I missed from circa 1990? I'm going year by year all month long to find retro things to play.

daftman

08/01/2023 at 04:44 PM

Ooh, Herzog Zwei. Yeah, I bet it is impenetrable today but that would be interesting to see such an early RTS. I bet Super Mario World is not expensive for an SNES cart. They made so many of those.

KnightDriver

08/04/2023 at 09:22 AM

I tried to find a SMW cart at Game Junkies but didn't see one. I should go again because I probably missed it. Not expensive and I have very few SNES carts these days. Would be a good addition.

Cary Woodham

08/02/2023 at 07:35 AM

I hope you get a chance to play Final Fantasy 3 (FF6). It's one of my top five favorite games of all time.

I doubt Super Mario World is that expensive. It was a pack-in game initially and there are many ways to play it. It's one of my favorite Mario games.

I loved playing Magic Sword and Final Fight in arcades.

I wish we got the Parodius games in the US. It's a shame that in the 90s, everyone thought Americans hated cute games.

Hate to break it to you, but Mega Man 3 is harder than 2. MM2 is actually one of the easier games in the series.

The best way to play Bonk's Adventure is on the TG-16. I wish I had a TG-16 as a kid. Looking back on it, I think I would've really liked that console.

Here's some more 1990 games to look into:

Little Nemo: The Dream Master (NES)

Dr. Mario (NES)

Lemmings (PC)

08/04/2023 at 09:33 AM

I really want to play FF6. I really want that bundle their selling right now of FF1-6. $70 though. It's on my wish list.

I feel I have Bonk's Adventure on my Wii when I was buying TG16 games on Virtual Console. I really don't have any more hook ups on my current gaming tv at my friend's place. Maybe at home I'll do it though. . . interesting idea.

08/05/2023 at 09:10 AM

I think $70 is way too much for FF1-6 Pixel Remasters. Unless it's the phyiscal version. They didn't make enough of those.

08/05/2023 at 10:13 AM

I might have paid it for a physical version, but not digital.

SanAndreas

08/03/2023 at 11:58 AM

Fire Emblem is on Switch. FFIII is part of the Pixel Remaster series, which is on Switch, PS4, and PC.

Dragon Quest IV is on DS, along with V and VI. Of the three, it's probably the easiest to find. I wish they would port these games to Switch. The first three games are there. DQV is one of the best games in the series.

08/04/2023 at 09:39 AM

Darn, I just realized I have FF3 on DS in my collection. Problem one has when one has too many games. Forget what one has.

DQIV looks to be a little pricey, maybe $80 or more. I'll think about it.

Super Step Contributing Writer

08/06/2023 at 10:26 PM

Hey, my birth year!

Hate to say this, but I found both Castlevania III and Mega Man III harder than original Castlevania and Mega Man 2, respectively.

08/07/2023 at 02:51 PM

They're all hard for me. Haha. I'll keep tryin' though.

PixlBit