| curl-6 said: I'm aware, it's just they did end up bringing Killer Instinct over the N64 as Killer Instinct Gold, so I just wondered if it was ever under consideration. The SNES is my favourite system of all time and I really like both DKC3 and Kirby's Dreamland 3 so I think it's really cool that it continued to receive support after the release of its successor. It's the last Nintendo console that wasn't dropped like a sack of rocks towards the end of its life, and it's nice that such a legendary system got to go out in a dignified way. Some other noteworthy post-N64 releases were Harvest Moon, Star Ocean, Winter Gold, Street Fighter Alpha II, Disney's Pinocchio, and Dragon Quest III. |
There's a bit of an interesting story to Killer Instinct: It was actually originally planned to be an "NU64" game. Like if you play the original arcade version from 1994 and just wait through the title screen and game play demos long enough, eventually it'll recycle to a promotional message that says "Coming in 1995, only for Nintendo ULTRA 64!!!!!!!!!!!! ...Killer Instinct", complete with a tentative NU64 logo displayed on-screen. ...Well the game did eventually wind up getting a home console release in 1995, but it wound up being for the Super NES because the Ultra 64 launch had been delayed a year in the interim. In fact, the NU64 was delayed so long that a sequel called Killer Instinct 2 actually made it to the arcades before the system was even retitled just plain "Nintendo 64" in the U.S., let alone released. KI Gold is the console version of Killer Instinct 2. THAT's what actually wound up making it to the N64 in the end!
Anyway yeah, good selections! Well except for Kirby's Dream Land 3, which I actually felt was a more lazily-crafted entry in the franchise, personally, that felt a bit like an afterthought next to the first-party releases for the N64 that year ('97). But Harvest Moon in particular was a favorite late-life Super NES title for me. I'd add that there were also some pretty great (and cute!) late-life, post-N64-release Super NES platforming games too, like The Lost Vikings 2 and Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow.
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