| VGPolyglot said: Interesting. I've never heard of Chop Suey myself, and it seems like footage is hard to come across on YouTube, I was only able to find 1 video on it. |
Yeah, it's quite obscure, for sure. All "girl games" from that era were typically about as successful. Except 1996's Barbie Fashion Designer, which sold 500,000 copies is its first week, to the shock of everyone and now influences the dress-up modes of all kinds of modern, mainstream games as a result. :P That was the exception though. Everything else flopped. (All the Purple Moon games, etc. Even the Nancy Drew games and (a favorite of mine) The Longest Journey acquired only a cult following.) But a lot of them also deserved to flop, truthfully. Purple Moon's games were frankly just plain boring and relied on too many lame stereotypes, for example. But Chop Suey did not deserve its fate. (Neither did The Longest Journey.)
As to console gaming, here are some of my favorites among the classics by system:
NES: The Guardian Legend
Super NES: Final Fantasy III (or VI, if you prefer to use the Japanese title)
Nintendo 64: Wonder Project J2
GameCube: Beyond Good & Evil
Sega Genesis: Golden Axe
Sega CD: Out of This World (or Another World, for European gamers)
Sega Saturn: Magic Knight Rayearth
Sega Dreamcast: Jet Grind Radio (a.k.a. Jet Set Radio)
PlayStation: Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey
PlayStation 2: Beyond Good & Evil
PlayStation 3: Portal 2
(I'm skipping some of the more obscure systems I have that don't really have a lot of great games, IMO.)
