Approximate Release Month: May 1992
Genre: Soccer
Developer: Human Entertainment
Publisher: Nintendo
Why is my goalie so inept in Super Soccer? I don’t want to make it sound like I know what I’m doing, but he seems to be the weak link on my team.
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SNES A Day 51: World League Soccer
Approximate Release Month: April 1992
Genre: Soccer simulation
Developer: ANCO
Publisher: Mindscape
World League Soccer is an exceptionally ugly game. That’s a necessary trade-off when a game is as fast as this one.
SNES A Day 48: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Approximate Release Date: April 13, 1992
Genre: Action RPG
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
What makes The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past so good?
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SNES A Day 47: Contra III: The Alien Wars
Approximate Release Date: April 6, 1992
Genre: Action
Developer: Konami
Publisher: Konami
It’s incredible that Konami was able to release Contra III: The Alien Wars and Super Castlevania IV, two of the best early Super Nintendo games, so close together.
SNES A Day 46: Super Adventure Island
Approximate Release Date: April 1, 1992
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Hudson Soft
Publisher: Hudson Soft
Super Adventure Island would feel like an evolutionary dead-end for the platformer genre if it weren’t for the recent resurgence of endless runners for cell phones.
It is the Archaeopteryx to Canabalt‘s pigeon.
SNES A Day 43: The Addams Family
Approximate Release Date: March 10, 1992
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Ocean Software
Publisher: Ocean Software
The Addams Family screws up the one thing that any adaptation of the movie of the television sitcom needs to get correct: The rendition of the theme song is terrible.
SNES A Day 42: Smart Ball
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.