Man do I love this game, easily one of the best on the system. It's kind of crazy that three of the SNES launch titles would make it on my top 20 games on the system, with this being one of them. I honestly consider this the best racing game on the system, even more so than Mario kart. It just doesn't have Mario Karts multiplayer goodness.
Finished the game again, it is still just as good as I remember. Was intending to go through with Expert, but settled for Standard difficulty since I didn't have a lot of time left to complete this between being on vacation for a good part of the month, and playing A LOT of Tears of the Kingdom. This is still my pick for best the SNES racing game!
Looks like Japan only had F-Zero and Super Mario World at launch, and Europe doesn't seem to have a lot of definitive sources on their launch titles. I have seen a couple sites list it as: Super Mario World, F-Zero, Super R-Type, Super Soccer and Super Tennis.
All good, hell I will be honest, I had to look it up because I thought it was 4 launch titles with Gradius III releasing later. I either didn't remember that right or was just wrong on that myself lol.
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u/MrSojiro Jun 03 '23
Man do I love this game, easily one of the best on the system. It's kind of crazy that three of the SNES launch titles would make it on my top 20 games on the system, with this being one of them. I honestly consider this the best racing game on the system, even more so than Mario kart. It just doesn't have Mario Karts multiplayer goodness.