ToastyPOP posted...
You did have SNES style controllers like the Gravis Gamepad.
I did have one of those eventually. but I think not at the same time that I was playing Commander Keen, etc. I don't think I ended up using it successfully on any game it was more of a novelty for me.
ToastyPOP posted...
And I don't think keyboards are intrinsically worse for platformers than controllers. I think it's just a preference thing. I prefer a controller but if I had grown up playing a lot more platformers on keyboard, maybe that would be different.
I would say they are. The games mentioned were all in competition with SMB1-3 and at some point SMW so the overall experience was just not as great as what you had with Nintendo, both in game design and controls.
this is just my experience. for sure there are those people that had great joysticks and played the heck out of the PC platform games, but I think the quality of the experience is not going to be anywhere near the best NES/SNES games.