1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0132 Super Hang-On

Sunday, February 5, 2017

#0132 Super Hang-On

Fun fact about me. I'm actually a pretty big fan of racing games. Specifically realistic simulation type games like Gran Turismo. They were one of my first foreys into games not made on Nintendo Systems. But I also like arcade style racing games so today we start off 1987 with one of my favorite racing games yet Super Hang-On.

This is a motorcycle racing game made by Sega. It's fast, the controls are responsive, the handling feels tight, overall, a pretty solid racing game except for one crucial detail. It's hard. Brutally hard really. I'm a seasoned racing gamer, and I had a hard time making it past just the second checkpoint in the first, easiest level. You really gotta lay on that boot button to get anywhere close and if you whipe out, you might as well throw in the towel, you're not going to make it. It could really be more forgiving in that aspect. But for what it was, I had a lot of fun.

Next up: Blasteroids.

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.