{"id":17111,"date":"2017-11-22T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2017-10-24T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:15:35","slug":"playing-with-super-power-super-nes-classics-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/playing-with-super-power-super-nes-classics-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Super Power: Super NES Classics (Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year around this time, I reviewed a book from Prima about NES classic games.\u00a0 I think they released it to coincide with the NES Classic Edition (sadly I still don\u2019t have one).\u00a0 You can read that article by clicking here.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 This year they did the same thing with Super Nintendo games.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get a review copy of it like I did the NES book, but luckily I did get the SNES book for my birthday instead (along with the SNES Classic Edition\u2026yay!).\u00a0 So here\u2019s a review of the book before I post my article on the SNES Classic Edition itself.<\/p>\n

Here is a bigger shot of the front cover of the book.\u00a0 It\u2019s hardcover as well, by the way.<\/p>\n

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Just like the last book, the cover is really a casing for the actual book.\u00a0 And also just like the last book, the cover looks like a SNES cartridge.<\/p>\n

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For the majority of the book, they just talk about most of the games found on the SNES Classic Edition, as well as strategies and the history behind those titles.\u00a0 But first they go behind the scenes and talk about how the SNES came about, even showing some cool concept pictures I\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n

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They also have a history of Nintendo\u2019s other consoles.<\/p>\n

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I was impressed they even featured Nintendo\u2019s very early consoles, which were just Japanese Pong clones, as well as their handheld history.<\/p>\n

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And they even go over some of the SNES\u2019 other accessories.\u00a0 Mario Paint was one of my favorites as a kid.\u00a0 I even did some school projects using Mario Paint!<\/p>\n

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One SNES accessory I missed out on, though, was the Super Scope 6.\u00a0 It was the SNES version of the Zapper light gun from the NES days.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get it for a few reasons.\u00a0 One, I was just a teen with a limited income, and couldn\u2019t afford it.\u00a0 Plus, there wasn\u2019t very many Super Scope 6 games I wanted to play.\u00a0 I think the only one I was interested in was Yoshi\u2019s Safari.\u00a0 And finally, it had that sniper scope thing on the gun they showed everyone using. \u00a0And since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth, I didn\u2019t know if I\u2019d be able to make as good of use out of it.\u00a0 But I\u2019m glad they still put it in the book.<\/p>\n

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For each game they included maps and strategies like how they used to do in Nintendo Power magazines.\u00a0 I was always impressed on how they did the maps back then, since this was before screen capture technology.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a map in the book of both Link to the Past\u2019s Light and Dark Worlds.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s some maps of race tracks from Super Mario Kart.\u00a0 Did you know that Super Mario Kart is one of my top five favorite games of all time?<\/p>\n

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One of the criticisms of the NES book is that most of it was just reprints of Nintendo Power magazine.\u00a0 They do that in this book, too, but it\u2019s mostly smaller cuts in sidebars and such.\u00a0 So there is much more original content.\u00a0 Here is a page with some of the Link to the Past manga comic that was in Nintendo Power for a while.<\/p>\n

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For each game they also do a history of the games in that series.\u00a0 They\u2019re not always COMPLETELY comprehensive, but they get close.\u00a0 Here is one for the history of Mario Kart games.\u00a0 I was impressed they even included the arcade titles.<\/p>\n

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Of course they had to talk about Star Fox 2, since it was an unreleased game that\u2019s now on the SNES Classic Edition for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

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And in the last few pages they included things from the fans, including cosplay pictures, fanart, and other projects.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s the whole book!\u00a0 I\u2019ve been enjoying reading it almost as much as playing the SNES Classic Edition itself.\u00a0 But then, the SNES is my favorite game console.\u00a0 The book even has info I didn\u2019t even know about, even from games like Kirby\u2019s Dream Course.\u00a0 Which is impressive since I\u2019m such a big Kirby fan.\u00a0 Only problem is they only talked about the first party games in the book.\u00a0 I guess it would\u2019ve been harder to get the rights from other companies, but even joint ventures like Super Mario RPG aren\u2019t included.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Anyway, be on the lookout next time for my review of the SNES Classic Edition itself!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year around this time, I reviewed a book from Prima about NES classic games.\u00a0 I think they released it to coincide with the NES Classic Edition (sadly I still don\u2019t have one).\u00a0 You can read that article by clicking here.\u00a0 This year they did the same thing with Super Nintendo games.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17113,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions\/17113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}