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Random Game Wednesdays: Super Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (SNES)

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By some coincidence, the random game chosen for me on the week of Star Wars Day is a Star Wars game. Super Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi, or Super Return Of The Jedi as we always called it, is a game that I spent a lot of time with growing up. The same is true with the other games in the Super Star Wars trilogy, the first of which I actually wrote a Random Game Wednesdays post on all the way back in 2016. I was mostly positive on that first one, but what about this third one?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Dragon’s Lair (SNES)

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Dragon’s Lair is a 1983 arcade game by RDI Video Systems. Its most well known for featuring animation by Don Bluth of An American Tale and The Land Beford Time. Gameplay involved hitting the correct buttons to match what was happening on screen, basically what we call quick time events. The interactive animated feature film look really stood out compared to other arcade games of the time. But what do you do with the game when trying to put it onto platforms that don’t support that kind of video?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Illusion of Gaia (SNES)

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The Super Nintendo was the console that I discovered RPGs on. I didn’t have my own yet, but I was at a friend’s house and he showed me Final Fantasy II (which is what we called IV back then). During this time, I quickly became aware of many other games in the genre. One that I had heard of but knew absolutely nothing about was Illusion of Gaia. It had a logo that made it look like something similar to Final Fantasy, a title that reminded me of Secret of Mana, and I had no idea if it had anything to do with either of these. Well, now, in 2025, the random number generator has decided that I need to actually see what this game is.

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Random Game Wednesdays: Justice League Task Force (SNES)

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Following the success of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, there was a rush of new fighting games hitting the market in the early 90’s. A lot of them were straight up rip offs of those other games, but there were also several that used popular characters from already existing franchises. Today, we’re talking about one of the latter. Justice League Task Force is a fighting game for the Super Nintendo by Blizzard Entertainment and Sunsoft featuring characters from DC Comics. Is it any good though?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Secret of Evermore (SNES)

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I’ve had a copy of Secret of Evermore in my Super Nintendo collection for a long time, but really never put much time into it. I had played it, but I don’t think I made any meaningful progress in it. It’s a pretty similar game to Secret of Mana, a game I love a lot, so it’s a little weird that this one didn’t hold my attention. But from seeing reviews on the internet, it does seem like most people consider this to be the lesser “Secret of” SNES game. That being said, the random number generator decided that it was time for me to take a closer look at it.

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Random Game Wednesdays: Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (SNES Nintendo Switch Online)

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I really like Kirby, but for whatever reason, his Super Nintendo games are a bit of a blind spot for me. But, a couple of them are available on the Nintendo Switch’s SNES app and the random number generator decided I should check out Kirby’s Dreamland 3. Dreamland 2 was one of my favorite games on the original Game Boy, but is 3 a worthy successor? Well, it’s kind of hard to say after only playing through the first world, but here’s what I thought. Continue reading →

Star Fox 2 Is As Impressive As It Is Clunky

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It’s not every day that a new first-party Super NES game comes out. Originally scheduled to be released in 1995, Star Fox 2 was completed but cancelled. As can be expected, incomplete ROMs could be found on the internet for year. But now, if you’re one of the lucky few who were able to pick up an SNES Classic Edition, you can legally play the fully complete version of the game. But was it worth the wait? Continue reading →

Random Game Wednesdays: Garry Kitchen’s Super Battletank: War In The Gulf (SNES)

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Sometimes when going through my old games, I find ones that not only have I never played before, but I’m not even sure where they came from. This is the case with this week’s game, Garry Kitchen’s Super Battletank: War In The Gulf. I’ve never played this game before in my life. There’s no Goodwill price tag, which is pretty common in old games in my collection that I’ve never played. My only clue is a faint “2.99” written in marker on the back. Continue reading →

Random Game Wednesdays: Fighter’s History (SNES)

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I like Street Fighter a lot. I like it so much that I named this blog after the command to make Ryu or Ken throw a fireball. But strangely, I didn’t play it a whole lot growing up. Sure, I played it at friends’ houses, but I didn’t own a copy of myself, except for the not very good Game Boy version. What I did grow up with, however, is Data East’s infamous ripoff of Street Fighter, Fighter’s History.  Continue reading →

Random Game Wednesdays: Super Mario Kart (SNES)

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Random Game Wednesdays is kind of a weird series on this blog. Because I let a random number generator choose the game I cover, we end up with a strange assortment, and you never quite know what you’re going to get. Sometimes I get obscure games that have been sitting on my shelf ever since I found them at Goodwill years ago. Other times, I get undisputed classics. This week is the latter. Continue reading →