Will start a little series here about me browsing this Club Nintendo issue from July 1995 (Nintendo Power in the US). 📖
I explicitly bought this one recently because I have so fond childhood memories. It must have been one of the few I owned and therefore read endless times. I still remember so much of the content and now I'm excited to refresh these memories.
The cover shows Asterix & Obelix, a PAL exclusive game series. 🐗
The magazine starts with a presentation of Donkey Kong Land. One of the few games in this issue I could actually play by myself because I had a Game Boy and a friend of mine the game. 🐵
I often borrowed it from him and experienced an awesome jump 'n run with cool graphics and a challenging but fun gameplay. It was mindblowing to control the animals shown in this magazine. 🦏
I remember being overwhelmed by the colorful graphics. I only owned a Game Boy at this time and imagined how much fun it would be to play such a graphically impressing game. Unfortunately my friends didn't own a SNES neither, so it remained an imagination for a long time.
Although you never could play most of the games presented in such magazines even reading the articles and imagine playing it was fun.
@repeatro I'm pretty sure I owned this issue in my youth as well. The articles seem mighty familiar. 🤔
Yoshi's Island is amazing of course. You should give it a try if haven't. It's still crazy colorful and cute. 🥰
I started it offstream a while ago but it's not my kind of gameplay. It's too annoying hunting for Baby Mario when you lost him or have to start over a level because you didn't get enough stars (because you lost Baby Mario 😆 ).
But it's a great game anyways and I would have loved to played it as a kid.
Third entry is about the PAL exclusive cover story game Asterix & Obelix for SNES.
I owned the quite similar Game Boy version at the time and still remember the hard Rugby level shown on these pages. 🏉
I barely made it above this level and remember some kind of snow level afterwards where I was stuck again due to lacking knowledge of the sprint capabilities. 🏔️
Did you play the Game Boy or SNES version and have any memories of the rugby level?
@repeatro no, I'm 100% sure it's Asterix & Obelix. I just watched a few minutes of each speedrun and even though I don't really remember much of the levels, I'm certain that is the game I played.
I do remember running through the village, London and Switzerland.
Skimming through the video, I also remember throwing spears in a minigame and the bull fight at the end. 😁
@repeatro I'd have to give it a try. I was suprised at how quickly I sped through Super Mario World, Land 1, Land 2 and Donkey Kong. It looks like the jump & run muscle memory is intact.
However, I remember that Asterix & Obelix had quite a bit of trial and error, where you needed to learn the level and enemy positions to master it. 🤔
Not really good design, but I might misremember.
The tag team sections made me think of the SNES Tintin game. Have you played that? I remember mountain climbing.😅
Learning the levels and enemy positions and attacks is the way difficulty was implemented in the games these days I think 😆 If you are looking for a challenge here try some of the other Infogrames titles on SNES: Smurfs, Lucky Luke,...
@repeatro holy shit it's hard. 😬
I played a few minutes to remind me and Gameover'ed twice in the first level. I ultimately made it to the next level, but that has entirely new "enemies" and you need to figure out from scratch how to avoid them.
But I have to say that the spritework and animations are very pretty. It really fits in nicely with the Tintin comics.
@TheRetroSven after watching a speedrun of it yesterday to refresh my memory: I fully agree. 😅
I'm amazed that I made it as far as the climbing stage as a kid. @repeatro
The magazine continues with an article about the Street Fighter II Game Boy port. 📖
Never played this game as a kid, not even on other platforms. The only fighting game I experienced back in the days was Tekken 3 on PS1. 🤼♂️
Club Nintendo magazines often came with guides about the presented games. So it is with Mickey Mouse V: Magic Wands! in the issue I have in front of me. 💫
Do you remember using one of these guides to successfully proceed in a game you were stuck before? 🔍
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