Wiki Project: Super '95 Q1
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Since I've been chronicling my Wikiventures through my Sunday Summaries feature of late, I thought I'd go for something a little more visually striking and a little less in-depth for this edition of Wiki Project. (To compare, the Super '94 Wiki Project can be seen here, here, here and here.) The above image includes the title screens of all 108 games that premiered on the Super Nintendo and Super Famicom in either the US, Europe or Japan between the months of January and March of 1995. There's a mix of favorites, less-favorites and entirely too obscure Super Famicom games in there.
The aspect ratio is a bit off for wallpapers and the like, I'm afraid; 9 by 12 is the best I can do with 108 images. Maybe next time I'll go for something a bit closer to the 4:3/16:9 standard (and maybe a bit smaller? Though with 4K on the horizon, I almost think I could afford to go bigger...) Either way, this image best represents what 1995 was like for the Super Nintendo: a mix of ambitious projects and a lot of very generic by-the-numbers pap. That's always been the case for any console library since the dawn of time, of course, but it was particularly polarized between those two groups for the SNES in 1995 and beyond due to a mix of pushing the old console as far as it could go with increasing technological progress in game development combined with a lot of workmanlike generic titles that - not-so-surprisingly often - were simulators to help grown-ups gamble. Nintendo had strict rules regarding publishing pornographic material on their consoles, but there's more than one way a console can become the tool of dubious means as it approaches obsolescence. But hey! It's not all doom and gloom (for one, the SNES version of Doom wouldn't come out until September). The above selection has an absurd amount of quality JRPGs, for instance.
I've added an image key inside the spoiler-block below with a handful of notes. For more updates about SNES/SFC titles from 1995, be sure to follow my Sunday Summaries series or peruse this list of SNES/SFC game pages I've added to the wiki.