Super Play

They did grumble that the chopper, uh, handled like a, a cow on a lolly stick when things got busy.

And Super Play, the Super Nintendo mag that ran a Final Fantasy column when none of those games were even out over here, was a lot less keen, and gave it 75, 13 points lower.

A cow on a lolly stick is a, uh, y- is a brilliant way to describe a helicopter, Lee, and I'm pinching it.

Uh, the Game Gear got its own version in '95 as well, but I couldn't find a British magazine that reviewed it anywhere.

I'd love to know if anybody actually finished the Game Boy version on that tiny green screen, though.

Scores then.

Uh, the British mags went from Sega Power's 93 down to C & VG's 82 on the Mega Drive, with Total on 88 and Super Play on 75 for the Super Nintendo.

From me, the Mega Drive version gets an eight.

On the Nintendo side, Nintendo Magazine System, the officially approved, uh, Nintendo mag that EMAP started that same October, gave the Super Nintendo, uh, version ninety-two.

And Super Play, uh, Future's Super Nintendo magazine from Bath with those lovely manga style covers went eighty-one, and in that same issue, the Japanese Street Fighter II Turbo got ninety-six from them.

them.92 from the official Nintendo mag for the version with the blood taken out is very generous, Lee, though the reviewer did grumble about the censored death moves.

And Super Play putting Street Fighter right next to it at 96 tells you which fighting game they really loved.

The handhelds had it tougher.

Uh, Gamesmaster, the future mag that launched, uh, in, uh, January 93 to go with the, the Channel 4 telly show, gave the Game Boy version 55%.

Did anybody keep a shred of calm, or was it Hadouken fever in every office?

When Future's Super Play, uh, arrived later for Super Nintendo fans, um, Jason Brooks gave, uh, the UK cart 94% and even argued the home options made bits of it better than the coin-op.

So the console press was not playing it cool.

This was the review that sold pads.

A very

Scores.

Mean Machines gave the Super Nintendo version 98 Super Play 94.

My mark with hindsight is a 9.