{"id":122157,"date":"2020-12-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/anniversary_actraiser_turns_30_today_and_theres_still_nothing_quite_like_this_snes_classic"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:00:00","slug":"anniversary-actraiser-turns-30-today-and-theres-still-nothing-quite-like-this-snes-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/16\/anniversary-actraiser-turns-30-today-and-theres-still-nothing-quite-like-this-snes-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary: ActRaiser Turns 30 Today, And There’s Still Nothing Quite Like This SNES Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another day, another significant anniversary for another<\/em> celebrated video game. The Super Famicom launched in Japan three decades ago last month<\/a> and knowing the incredible catalogue of classics birthed in the bloody 16-bit console wars, you should brace yourself for a barrage of 30th anniversaries over the next few months\/years (all designed, we’re sure, to make us feel old<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Today’s is a bit special, though; a particular favourite among Team NL staff. Coming from Quintet \u2014 the developer behind such classics as Illusion of Gaia<\/a><\/strong> and Terranigma<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 and published by Enix, ActRaiser<\/a><\/strong> was an ambitious genre-mashup that incorporated side-on sword-swinging action with an altogether more intriguing overhead RPG ‘god’ mode in between the more standard platforming stages.<\/p>\n