5th September 2005, 1:33 PM
Quote:The area of games in which the SNES really took stride was in the role playing game (RPG). The SNES was not the first system to have these games, even NES had a few good ones, but it was on the Super Nintendo that the RPG as we know it today came to be. NES' RPGs, like Dragon Warrior, were long and tedious and offered a very linear story line. Advances were made, such as in the real-time RPG Star Tropics, but only so much could be done with the NES console. The Super Nintendo console, with its 128 Kbytes of RAM and 3.58 MHz CPU, allowed for such memorable games as Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Earth Bound, and Chrono Trigger. These games, some real-time and some turn-based, set the foundation for the modern RPG and though their have been surpassed in a technological sense, it they remain to be some of the finest role playing games of all time.Full article at XYZ Computing