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SNES-A-Day: Air Cavalry

Paul plays all the smelly Super Nintendo games he found under a pier.

Time played: 1 minute

Tanks destroyed: Those were tanks?

At the start of the 16-bit era game developers were eager to harness the awesome power of the Super Nintendo to achieve hyper-realistic virtual experiences. Well guess what:

Air Cavalry has you flying this poop-colored helicopter around a swamp shooting at tanks and AA guns. This whole game is based around Mode 7 effects, yet it somehow looks way worse than other other game I've seen using it. So it is impossible to tell if you are going to come across a tank or even if you're currently shooting. But it doesn't really matter, because the game starts you off on top of 5 tanks and they are all shooting at you at once, even if they haven't popped up on the "horizon" yet. So you explode almost instantly. This game is incomprehensible.

About Paul

Paul has been playing games since he cut his teeth on an old Atari 2600 in the early 1990s. He has played every console generation since, and currently jams on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and DSi. He proudly does not own a Wii, and goes back and forth on whether he'd want a gaming PC (he did his fair share of Mac gaming back in the day though). Games-wise, Paul came up in the world a pretty big JRPG nerd, but now he's mellowed plays mostly anything good or weird. He does maintain a pretty impressive collection Playstation 1-era RPGs.