The complete, North American Squaresoft Line-up
I finished this about a month ago and just not got around to photographing the games and writing blurbs about it on Imgur. Take a look! It was fun collecting these. Now on to other sets!
Gallery
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Gallery
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Comments
Very neat to see all together. Wouldn't have pegged the Tetris Jr. as a Squaresoft affiliated release. Looks good, not a players choice or greatest hits in sight!
Yup, I'm working on getting those too, just not as fast.
Yeah, I stumbled upon that Tetris. I think I was just searching "squaresoft" on ebay and just scrolling through the list looking for odd items. I was surprised to find it was a legit Squaresoft item but, after further searching, it seems like their only adventure into handheld LCD titles, other than those PS1 memory card games, but they don't count.
Neat, So Enix next?
Lol, I considered it but I wasn't introduced to Enix until... well, actually never. I played Dragon Quest 8 when it came out and I think it's the best RPG on PS2. I've since played Dragon Warrior as the DQ remake on iOS. I mean, I could say that's Enix but it's not really.
I feel like I missed out on them when I focused mostly on square games as a kid. I hate to admit it but I was (and am, I suppose) a total fanboy of the company so my $$$ usually went to them.
I owned about half of these as a kid, to make my point. I sold most of those and had to re-acquire them in this journey.
So they had two of the three 3-D NES games.
That eidos box..... want.....
It really is my favorite piece, which is odd because I'm not much of a PC game collector. There are only 4-5 PC games that I want in my collection and this specific trapezoid box was definitely #1 on the list.
That eidos box..... want.....
It really is my favorite piece, which is odd because I'm not much of a PC game collector. There are only 4-5 PC games that I want in my collection and this specific trapezoid box was definitely #1 on the list.
I should also point out something no one ever notices. You have a Square box, that's not a square box.
Anyways, that's how it started with me. "Ooo, this is related to one of the series I like, and it's not a normal bland square box." Next thing you know, you have triangle-shaped consoles and wierd mini-CD business card shaped games in your collection.
That eidos box..... want.....
It really is my favorite piece, which is odd because I'm not much of a PC game collector. There are only 4-5 PC games that I want in my collection and this specific trapezoid box was definitely #1 on the list.
I should also point out something no one ever notices. You have a Square box, that's not a square box.
Anyways, that's how it started with me. "Ooo, this is related to one of the series I like, and it's not a normal bland square box." Next thing you know, you have triangle-shaped consoles and wierd mini-CD business card shaped games in your collection.
Hahaha thats awesome. Big Box PC is like heaven for people who like complete games, something I need to get more into
* Except for FF2 which says "Square" - the other Squaresoft games are mostly similar except Mario RPG does not say Squaresoft on the front, and for some reason Secret of Mana has it in Huge letters, completely different from the rest.
* Some of them have "licensed by" on the same line, while others have "by" below "licensed" And the font sizes are different.
* The purple arrow, which I can only assume is to show you how to put the game in the machine (...), is in randomly different places on the carts.
* Mario RPG is wacky all around. It has a significantly smaller ESRB logo. No Squaresoft on the front. Nintendo seal is not center but more left aligned with text below. Doesn't say "licensed by" at all.
* Breath of Fire has 'Squaresoft' twice on the front. At the top right and on the image also. Kinda redudant eh? haha
This isn't a commentary about the legitimacy of the carts - it's just interesting as I look at them next to each other how different they are!
Congrats rlh! So...something I noticed while looking at your SNES carts, as they are all right next to each other. There are so many little inconsistencies between the carts, with formatting and layout, etc. You would think it would be more uniform. For example:
* Except for FF2 which says "Square" - the other Squaresoft games are mostly similar except Mario RPG does not say Squaresoft on the front, and for some reason Secretion of Mana has it in Huge letters, completely different from the rest.
* Some of them have "licensed by" on the same line, while others have "by" below "licensed" And the font sizes are different.
* The purple arrow, which I can only assume is to show you how to put the game in the machine (...), is in randomly different places on the carts.
* Mario RPG is wacky all around. It has a significantly smaller ESRB logo. No Squaresoft on the front. Nintendo seal is not center but more left aligned with text below. Doesn't say "licensed by" at all.
* Breath of Fire has 'Squaresoft' twice on the front. At the top right and on the image also. Kinda redudant eh? haha
This isn't a commentary about the legitimacy of the carts - it's just interesting as I look at them next to each other how different they are!
I know. You feel you have a sense of consistency since they all have a mostly-standard SNES boarder. However, they aren't that consistent at all. One thing that always annoyed me as a kid were the Game Boy games. Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Legends II looked similar, which I liked. FFL III was similar but, why did they shrink the middle image? It was unnecessary. And then there was the complete odd ball of Final Fantasy Legends. Nice graphic, but nothing like the others.
Congrats rlh! So...something I noticed while looking at your SNES carts, as they are all right next to each other. There are so many little inconsistencies between the carts, with formatting and layout, etc. You would think it would be more uniform. For example:
* Except for FF2 which says "Square" - the other Squaresoft games are mostly similar except Mario RPG does not say Squaresoft on the front, and for some reason Secretion of Mana has it in Huge letters, completely different from the rest.
* Some of them have "licensed by" on the same line, while others have "by" below "licensed" And the font sizes are different.
* The purple arrow, which I can only assume is to show you how to put the game in the machine (...), is in randomly different places on the carts.
* Mario RPG is wacky all around. It has a significantly smaller ESRB logo. No Squaresoft on the front. Nintendo seal is not center but more left aligned with text below. Doesn't say "licensed by" at all.
* Breath of Fire has 'Squaresoft' twice on the front. At the top right and on the image also. Kinda redudant eh? haha
This isn't a commentary about the legitimacy of the carts - it's just interesting as I look at them next to each other how different they are!
Last time I secreted mana I had to go see a doctor.
Sorry I laughed way harder at that than I should've