{"id":105922,"date":"2019-12-20T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/23_years_on_and_we_still_cant_believe_this_classic_snes_rpg_didnt_get_a_us_release"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:30:00","slug":"23-years-on-and-we-still-cant-believe-this-classic-snes-rpg-didnt-get-a-us-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/23-years-on-and-we-still-cant-believe-this-classic-snes-rpg-didnt-get-a-us-release\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Years On, And We Still Can&#8217;t Believe This Classic SNES RPG Didn&#8217;t Get A US Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55500da81d1d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55500da81d1d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Terranigma\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55500da81d1d\/terranigma.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e55500da81d1d\/terranigma.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Terranigma\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>On December 19th, 1996, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/terranigma\">Terranigma<\/a><\/strong> was released in the west. Quintet&#8217;s final SNES release and part of a loose trilogy which also includes the superb <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/soul_blazer\">Soul Blazer<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/illusion_of_gaia\">Illusion of Gaia \/ Time<\/a><\/strong> (and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/actraiser\">ActRaiser<\/a><\/strong>, if you&#8217;re feeling generous), Terranigma ranks as one of the best RPGs to grace Nintendo&#8217;s 16-bit system \u2013 or any console, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we reporting on this news? Well, it&#8217;s now been 23 years since Terranigma launched in Europe and Australia \u2013 an odd anniversary, true, but those fine folks at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/terranigma.ocremix.org\/\">OverClocked Remix<\/a> have marked the occasion with a new album which pays tribute to the game&#8217;s amazing soundtrack, originally composed by Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9dPugNPNig?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Amazingly, Terranigma didn&#8217;t see a release in the US as Enix had closed its North American office by that point (Nintendo itself handled the European localisation) \u2013 which makes the PAL version all the more important (<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/710-53481-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&amp;pub=5574936369&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336736927&amp;customid=&amp;mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26amp%3B_sacat%3D0%26amp%3B_nkw%3Dterranigma%2520pal%26amp%3BLH_Complete%3D1%26amp%3Brt%3Dnc%26amp%3B_trksid%3Dp2045573.m1684\" rel=\"nofollow\">copies regularly sell for well over \u00a3100 on eBay<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing Terranigma hasn&#8217;t been re-released on any modern system; we&#8217;d love to see it come to Nintendo Switch Online, if anyone who can make that happen is reading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 19th, 1996, Terranigma was released in the west. Quintet&#8217;s final SNES release and part of a loose trilogy which also includes the superb Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia \/ Time (and ActRaiser, if you&#8217;re feeling generous), Terranigma ranks as one of the best RPGs to grace Nintendo&#8217;s 16-bit system \u2013 or any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}