

You know the sort: people who think it's better to watch anime and Japanese films with the original dialogue. Mystical Ninja was known in its native Japan as Ganbare Goemon: Yukihime Kyūshutsu Emaki - as massive nerds will no doubt take the opportunity to tell me in the comments.


it is if you're as chronically apathetic as I am. The Legend of the Mystical Ninja was a weird blend of genres, released back in the day before everyone started hating Konami for pushing Hideo Kojima down a flight of stairs.Ī mix of RPG elements, beat 'em up stages, platforming, and mini games, delivered it all with some of the loveliest sound and visuals ever seen on the SNES, and I've just realised that it's actually quite a difficult game to describe. Here are ten that I grasped bawdily 'twixt my fleshy gentlemen, which I demand be included on Nintendo's newest wee machine (note: that's the Scottish wee, not the slang term for piddle - more on that subject very shortly). But the SNES was more than just its headline games, see it was also a treasure trove of brilliant, less well remembered titles. Yes expect to see Super Mario World, A Link To The Past, and Super Metroid. Suffice to say, we're going to get most of the classics on the SNES Mini, as it shall henceforth be known. It looks as if the reason Nintendo has cancelled its miniature NES Classic console - a decision which baffled all but the least baffleable - is because it's doing this: inserting a hot cone into Rod Stewart's furtive puncture (preparing a miniature Super NES for release later this year).Īs the years grind on, and the crushing inevitability of my death draws inexorably closer - towering over me like a vast granite question mark - I come to realise that the Super NES is my favourite games machine of all time.
