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SNES A Day 178: Street Combat

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Approximate Release Month: April 1993
Genre: Fighting
Developer: Irem
Publisher: Irem

Bad fighting games are quite common in the 16-bit era, but Street Combat happens to be memorable.

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SNES A Day 42: Smart Ball

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Approximate Release Date: March 1, 1992
Genre: Action/platformer
Developer: Game Freak/System Sacom
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft

Smart Ball is adorable. That’s not surprising since Game Freak, the developers of Pokémon, were involved in its creation.

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SNES A Day 19: RPM Racing

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Approximate Release Date: November 1, 1991
Genre: Racing
Developer: Silicon & Synapse
Publisher: Interplay Entertainment

RPM Racing is most notable for being the first game by one of the most successful video game developers to date: Blizzard Entertainment, known as Silicon & Synapse at the time.

That’s all it should be known for. It’s not very good, though it has some interesting ideas.

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