Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo was released in North America in 1997, and it was my game. During a time when the Nintendo 64 was at the center of my life and platforming games ruled my dying Super Nintendo, Harvest Moon came as a challenge - a game about farming? Really? Was this a joke?
Despite its ridiculously silly concept, I was still intrigued into at least renting the game to try it out. I picked up the only copy available from the Video Connection in northern Bowling Green and over the next four weekends played it through to completion. I was hooked. Not since Mario Paint did a game capture my unrelenting attention so well. From morning to night every weekend, my SNES was fired up so I could toil away in my virtual farm fields to raise a large and profitable farm with a wife and kids to go with it.
While there have been dozens of Harvest Moon games on various gaming platforms since the original, including my personal-favorite Rune Factory series on the Nintendo DS, the original Harvest Moon is an experience unmatched in simplicity, fun, and accomplishment.
Next Up: My favorite platformer was reborn in glorious 3D.
B3 out.
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