Artemis

I can't abide a cluttered desktop.

Several of my favorite game franchises got their start on the NES, and some of them persist to this day with good and sometimes lackluster installments. But it was during the days of SNES that everything really seemed to shine. Maybe the transition to 16-bit left less to the imagination because of the improved graphics and sound, and all of the technological enhancements that would come with later consoles just didn't impress in the same way. Eight-bit music is somehow charming and provides its own kind of excitement, but there's just something about 16-bit music that I find entrancing. That was also the point when video game music started to become recognized as "real music" by many people.

Two of my favorite series, Final Fantasy and Castlevania, had what is in my opinion their best installments on the SNES. Castlevania IV's control scheme is the best of them all, even to this day. Final Fantasy VI is my favorite in that series in pretty much every category: graphics, music, plot, and gameplay. The Genesis had a fantastic library of its own, but the SNES is king of what I feel was the greatest era of the industry. Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario All-Stars/Super Mario World is also the first multicart I ever played that didn't suck


I think my 3DS may have recently usurped the title of favorite handheld from my GBA.

THE BEST GAME SYSTEM EVER!↓

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LOL JK!
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Everyone knows it had the best Zelda games of all time.