Dash Bomber writes, "The Super Scope for the Super Nintendo was the successor to the NES Zapper on the NES. The Super Scope had everything the original Zapper had minus the fun. While it did utilize the FX chip capabilities on the SNES to its potential it proved to be rather unpopular with the user base. The Super Scope also had a very limited library which hampered its marketability even further. This coupled with the fact that using the Super Scope made you look like a tool truly made it a hard sell for Nintendo. But, amidst a pool of coal was there a metaphorical jewel hidden within the library of the Super Scope? Let’s review the top eleven games that used the Super Scope."
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"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
The second edition of gamescom latam brought some heavy hitters from some of the best developers in Brazil.
