Secret weapon.
Secret of Mana (or Seiken Densetsu 2, if you prefer) is one of those games that, when I think back to my first time playing it, felt like it arrived at a pivotal moment in my gaming history.
That is because the day in early 1995 I bought a copy (pre-owned from a market stall in the English town of Northampton) was the exact same day I saw Ridge Racer running on the PlayStation for the first time. An independent gaming store sat right next to Northampton’s open-air market (one of the largest in the country, which can trace its history all the way back to 1235, if you’re interested) and was demonstrating an imported Japanese console from its window.
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Secret weapon.
Secret of Mana (or Seiken Densetsu 2, if you prefer) is one of those games that, when I think back to my first time playing it, felt like it arrived at a pivotal moment in my gaming history.
That is because the day in early 1995 I bought a copy (pre-owned from a market stall in the English town of Northampton) was the exact same day I saw Ridge Racer running on the PlayStation for the first time. An independent gaming store sat right next to Northampton’s open-air market (one of the largest in the country, which can trace its history all the way back to 1235, if you’re interested) and was demonstrating an imported Japanese console from its window.
Read the full article on timeextension.com