Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: This is amazing. I want to make a list like this!

[quote name="But I'm too indecisive."][quote name="Rafiki"]9 Street Fighter II Turbo[/quote] This used to be my absolute favourite SNES game. Hell, it was the reason I wanted a SNES in the first place. Then one day in 1998 I discovered <a href="http://bloodlust.zophar.net/Callus/callus.html">Callus</a> and never looked back. Now I literally can not imagine ever playing a 16-bit console Street Fighter again outside of, I don't know, maybe an institutional environment like a hospital or one of those horse ranches for at-risk teens? I guess at this point I would have to be working at the horse ranch or getting the kids to hide me out in the barn or something. Even if I were so overcome with nostalgia one day I had to fire it up, I would go for the Genesis port instead just to see how the other half lived. I hear it has less slowdown and colours and more frames of animation. A lot of Genesis games had more animation because the Genesis had way more flexible sprite hardware, the SNES was limited to square sprites of 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, or 64x64 pixels and could only use two different sprite sizes at the same time. On top of that, only 16KB of VRAM could be used for sprites. Meanwhile the Genesis could use any combination of sprites sized 8, 16, 24, or 32 pixels per side, square or rectangular, it didn't matter. And you could use as much of the total 64KB VRAM as you wanted on them! No wonder the kids would keep me around and sneak me food and play Street Fighter with me with stories like that. Hey kid do you want to see some topless pics of Counselor Troi? No she doesn't work here, she used to be on STAR TREK.[/quote]