Retro Gaming Australia

Both the NES and the WWF were at the top of their game at the end of the 1980s, so it was only natural that the two forces would collide. WWF WrestleMania Challenge is the second WWF effort for the system, and features eight WWF superstars, including favourites such as Hulk Hogan, The Macho Man Randy Savage and the Ultimate Warrior.

Final Fight is one of the most popular beat ’em ups of all time, revolutionising the genre upon first release in 1989. The SNES/Super Famicom release is a bit watered down – Guy has been removed, it’s single player only, and outside of Japan, the game is rife with censorship imposed by (then) the overly conservative Nintendo of America.

Throwing your father off a cliff is a right of passage in the Mishima family.

The infamous Neo Geo weenie ad tends to get brought up from time to time, especially when people reminisce about how the system was seriously expensive when compared to its contemporaries. Still, the system was much more powerful than the SNES and Mega Drive – you just had to sign over your first born or live off two minute noodles to be able to afford one.

Sonic Adventure DX: Director’s Cut is an enhanced port of Sonic’s 3D debut. It bumps up the frame rate to 60fps, adds the Mission Mode and throws in 12 of Sonic’s 8-bit adventures for good measure.

Don’t let the Game Informer quote fool you – the PlayStation version of Alpha 3 is far from perfection. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad, it’s just that the Saturn and Dreamcast ports were that much better.

Jet Set Radio is the game that set the bar for cel-shaded graphics, but underneath that cartoony aesthetic was a unique experience combining futuristic skates, madcap police captains and graffiti. It also has a particularly cool soundtrack.

Lufia and the Fortress of Doom (or Estopolis Denki) is the first in a series of popular J-RPGs from Neverland and Taito. Being an RPG on the SNES, you can bet it’ll cost you a pretty penny to acquire a complete copy, but it’s worth it.

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The infamous “naked chick” ad for the Saturn is a symbol of Sega of America’s attempts to be edgy in the promotion of the 32-bit console. One would have thought they’d be better off not rejecting the localisation of games people actually wanted to play.

Today marks 20 years since the release of the original Star Fox, but we decided to instead steer attention towards Fox McCloud’s finest hour – Lylat Wars, or Starfox 64 depending on your region.