We already know the Super Nintendo was the console that let plumbers ride dinosaurs and let pink balloons inhale deities, so why should it surprise anyone that it also let three rival planets file joint custody over a self-aware robo-menagerie? (Don’t play coy, you absolutely clicked because the box art looks like Gundam fan-fiction spray-painted on […]
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We already know puzzle games are the Switzerland of gaming genres, neutral, universally loved, occasionally deadly when you’re one block away from victory. But Super Puyo Puyo on the Super Nintendo (released December 10, 1993) is that eccentric cousin who shows up wearing mismatched socks and insists you call him “Puyo Lord.” Is it a
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There is a particular electronic chime, beep-beep-BEEP, LOCK, hat still ricochets around the ossified folds of my gamer brain. If you ever wrestled a Super Scope onto your shoulder in 1992, you know the sound: the moment X-Zone’s crosshair snaps crimson, grants missile authorization, and dares you to turn another on-screen war machine into confetti.
Picture Mario in a sanitary hairnet, Yoshi gulping pastries like a green Kirby at a bake-off, and an assembly line of checkerboards, donuts, and heart-shaped biscuits sliding toward oblivion while Sousa-inspired snares rattle your speakers. Sound like a hallucination brought on by too many midnight Chips Ahoy? Welcome to Yoshi’s Cookie, the Super Nintendo puzzler
How many RPGs open by asking you to burn down a helpless village, only to hand you the keys to a flying whale and hurl you at the literal surface of the Moon before the sixty-minute mark? Not many, and that is why Final Fantasy IV, never mind the confusing “II” on my childhood cartridge,