Greetings,
Although I generally do not like the Super Famicom at all, Charles
is right about the SFC Macross game. It is pretty good, and I
personally prefer it to Macross 2036. It has a pretty nifty weapon
system, and the ability to change your machine at will is what Macross
is all about.
Disclaimer: The following is not senseless SFC bashing like the
Genesis bashing that occcured earlier this month on the list by someone
who wanted to play a Mega Drive game.
If I had to compare the PC Engine to the SFC, the one thing I would
mention is the sound. While the SFC can do voices and sound effects
just fine, the music is pretty weak. Everything has a synthetic brass
sound to it that just ruins the music. I remember being so excited to
hear about a Final Fantasy 6 soundtrack because I was hoping it would
be arranged. But then I heard it and about cried when the awful
synth-brass tones raped my ears again. But the worst part of all this
is that most people seemed to think the SFC had the best music
processor. But the Mega Drive and PC Engine both have much better chip
tunes in my opinion. Additionally, 99% of people I have known that play
the games rather than the systems think the same way. Plus, if you look
for soundtracks on Japanese auction sites, Yuzo Koshiro's Mega Drive
stuff and various PC Engine CD are in high demand in spite of the fact
that the SFC was the big seller here in Japan during its time. (Granted
the PC Engine stu ff usually doesn't count since it is CD based.) I guess the fact that
the SFC could do the Street Fighter voices that the PC Engine and Mega
Drive didn't do too well fooled the people.
Later, Loc
PS: While I don't know a single composer's name that did a lot of SFC
stuff, I think just about everyone alive in the end of the 80's knows
who Yuzo Koshiro is. (I know he did Actraiser, so I said A LOT of SFC
stuff.) And I figure most of the people on this list could name games
done by the Groove King.