The Hotdog Laserhouse

Just today I loaded up the SNES version of Frogger and was surprised to see a copyright date of 1997 on it. That’s the same year Final Fantasy VII came out.

I think a lot of the dates for NES/SNES games would surprise me like that. Kirby’s a good example, but they were making NES games up until, like, what, 1994? That’s right on the edge of the SNES’s twilight.

I wasn’t quite as well-educated on that kind of stuff back then, so a lot of NES, SNES and Genesis games more or less fall under the general umbrella of “when I was a kid.”

So it’s like, yeah! Jurassic Park released on the NES! And I never stop and really think that Jurassic Park was 1993. Or, like, you think, yeah, of course Mega Man 7 was on the SNES. But you never realize the Mega Man 7 was actually kind of late in to the SNES’s life span because Mega Man 6 was on the NES in 1994. Which means Mega Man 7 came out the same year that Yoshi’s Island did.

Something you might not also realize is that Final Fantasy VIII also came out on 9/9/99. I specifically remember there being something in a gaming magazine about how “Squaresoft was going to show Sega how to do a launch right.”

Which is pretty funny for multiple, sometimes conflicting reasons.