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The 16-bit Games Mega Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

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01:39:41 - 01:40:07

... But I mean, this was, this was a game that was very easy for my kids when I were a bit younger to play with me when I got the SNES Mini versus something like Contra, which they used to come play or Street Fighter. This was the game that we, and even Donkey Kong Country, this was the game that sort of we, we played a lot of together because it was very simple, much like all Mario Kart games are for them to pick up, play, get it, understand it, and just be able to compete at least semi competently. ...

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... the first game everyone played when they got the SNES, the SNES classic. And then everyone just had the same experience of Bummer Town. Once they just remembered like how limited it was compared to what came next. I pushed back against that because of, I found it again, this is, this is. Because I picked it in this draft. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, this was, this was a game that was very easy for my kids when I were a bit younger to play with me when I got the SNES Mini versus something like Contra, which they used to come play or Street Fighter. This was the game that we, and even Donkey Kong Country, this was the game that sort of we, we played a lot of together because it was very simple, much like all Mario Kart games are for them to pick up, play, get it, understand it, and just be able to compete at least semi competently. And so I think it holds up in that regard. And it's, it's why I've still got a lot of time for it because it is something that I have returned to a lot in recent years playing with them. So yeah. And it had multiplayer or F-Zero, right? F-Zero was single player only and Mario Kart was designed from the start as this two player ...

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