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More Grassy Platforms
Long a standard element in platform games, platforms with grass on ’em! This is part two of a series, click here for more!
You don’t really notice when you’re playing the game, but now… Doesn’t that grass seem a little bit fluorescent?
But ol’ Hiryu doesn’t care. Lookit ‘im just strutting along. Striding, you might say.
Hoho, I slay me.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Strider.png)
Strider, Capcom (arcade)
Meanwhile, over in ancient Capcom history, there’s SonSon, a game that is nigh impossible to play with modern sloppy controllers but quite enjoyable with the right stick. It has the grassy platforms I love, with the right coloured grass:
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-SonSon.png)
Son Son, Capcom (arcade)
And did you know Son Son had a PC-Engine exclusive sequel?
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-SonSon2.gif)
Son Son II, Capcom (PC Engine)
Sometimes you find grassy platforms in strange places. Like Jaleco’s Astyanax. What is such a friendly, innocuous bit of platform doing in an axe-murder simulator?
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Astyanax.png)
Astyanax, Jaleco (arcade)
Finally, I held back long enough, but here’s a grassy platform we all knew was coming: Super Mario World, featuring horizontal and diagonal grassy platforms.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-SMW.png)
Super Mario World, Nintendo (SNES)
These next two games are from Data East: Caveman Ninja and Joe and Mac Returns. The former is a scrolly beater with few redeeming qualities, and its grassy platform is included here because completeness.
The second game, however, is beautiful. Top score for grassy platformery!
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Caveman.png)
Caveman Ninja, Data East (arcade)
Someone at Data East learned a thing or four between these two games.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-JoeMac.png)
Joe & Mac Returns, Data East (arcade)
How about a little more SuperNES love!
Hoshi no Kirby 3 is a weird game. I’ve never really gotten with Kirby as a game, it’s sort of endless and easy and I can’t stand to play it for very long. This third Super NES game uses a second CPU (the SA-1 chip) to something something, I dunno. I think it tries too hard to be as awesome as Yoshi’s Island, but ultimately it looks a little bit washed out and ugly.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Kirby3.png)
Hoshi no Kirby 3, Nintendo (SNES)
Castlevania IV was a flawed game, but it had a few grassy platforms so I’m sort of compelled to love it. Plus, the music. Do yourself a favour, and go play this today.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-CV4.png)
Castlevania IV, Konami (SNES)
Lastly, a game that’s right at the top of the list for best-looking SuperNES games, Demon’s Crest. I’m not sure that this screenshot accurately represents grassy platforms, but they’re green…
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Crest.png)
Demon’s Crest, Capcom (SNES)
Yoshi’s Island was a revolutionary game when it came out in 1995. It used the SuperFX-2 chip to turn the crayon-like graphics into malleable taffy, stretching and squashing and rotating sprites and other elements in nearly every stage.
And, unlike the above-mentioned Kirby, it worked. The graphics are incredible, fast and fluid. The screenshot below doesn’t do the game justice, but that’s OK ’cause grassy platform!
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Yoshi.png)
Yoshi’s Island, Nintendo (SNES)
And then there’s Willow, an arcade game from Capcom known by teen girls as a game easy enough that their 25 cents would last a while, and by operators as a game that would never make money because the girls could hog the machine on one coin. It never made a lot of money but the kids loved it, and it looked great.
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Willow1.png)
Willow, Capcom (arcade)
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-Willow2.png)
Willow, Capcom (arcade)
Here’s something a little special. Bonk’s Adventure, arcade version. This is a rare game, and is vastly different from the home games.
And look! Grassy platforms!
![](http://nfgworld.com/grafx/games/grassy/Grassy-BonkAC1.png)
Bonk’s Adventure, Kaneko (arcade)
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[ Jun 19 2013 ]
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