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curl-6 on 27 February 2021
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Jaicee said:
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.

I never knew that about Killer Instinct, thanks for the interesting info. :)

Personally I liked Dreamland 3 and didn't find it lazy; it wasn't quite a "AAA" game like Yoshi's Island or Super Mario World, but it felt as well constructed as I would expect from a Kirby game on 4th gen hardware. DKC3 though really was the star of the SNES's twilight years for me, definitely my favourite of its post-N64 lineup.

I often find it fascinating, looking at the last releases on a given platform. The Wii for example got Just Dance 2020 in late 2019, seven years after its replacement. PS3 and 360 got FIFA as late as 2018, five years after replacement.

The N64 itself got its last release in August 2002; Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. Not a bad one to go out with.