A review of those games that marked the last stage of different consoles of the past.
In this week’s Meripodcast Retro we bet on a review of those games that marked the final stretch of some of the most iconic consoles in history, those games in which experience, knowledge and the console’s own technical maturity are deposited to offer us something that would have been unthinkable on the same machine during its first years of life.
There are numerous emblematic cases that we review, such as Super Mario Bros 3, which appeared in Japan in the early 1990s, the year in which the flamanate Super Nintendo with the impressive Super Mario World would also appear in the country of the rising sun. That the third part of the plumber saga frequently competes head-to-head with the evolved 16-bit version is proof of just how much they accomplished at the Kyoto headquarters with the venerable Famicom hardware.
Games that define a console
We reviewed a long list of illustrious names such as God of War 2, the impressive display of technical versatility of Playstation 2. Of course, the lavish final stretch of Super Nintendo, with those pre-rendered games headed by the Donkey Kong trilogy that amazed the world and that launched Super Nintendo sales as its rivals started a new generation. The fantastic Treasure games for the end-of-stage Mega Drive. Cases like The Last of Us as a swan song for PS3 and so many other games that served as the zenith for their respective platforms, or that had a remarkable ability to transcend what was believed possible on their respective hardware, such as the surprising conversion of Street Fighter Alpha for Super Nintendo.
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