SNES Games for the Illiterate?

[Anonymous No.5488624]

My cousin is highly illiterate due to dyslexia and minor ADD, I want to get some games for his SNES that he’ll enjoy. All he has is Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World. What else should I get him?

[Anonymous No.5488627]

>>5488624
>asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.5488628]

>>5488627
If I’m illiterate, then who was phone, dummy?

[Anonymous No.5488637]

>>5488628
>phoneposter

[Anonymous No.5488685]

>>5488624
Chrono Trigger

[Anonymous No.5488690]

Just let him loose in the backyard with his favorite chew toy and call it a day.

[Anonymous No.5488691]

Arcade style games is what you want, and SNES can't handle arcade style games without slowing down to a crawl so you're out of luck. Get him a Genesis Mini which has (or will have) classic games such as Contra Hard Corps, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Streets of Rage 2 and the Shinobi series.

[Anonymous No.5488696]

>>5488624
FF6

[Anonymous No.5488705]

Just the usual action games and platformers would work fine, I guess? Mega Man, Kirby, Zelda, Metroid, Sparkster, Castlevania, Contra, Mickey & Donald series etc etc.

[Anonymous No.5488941]

>>5488691
I was thinking a Genesis/Genesis Mini might be a better choice for him but I never had a Genesis, so I wasn’t sure. I had a SNES but I mostly played RPGs. Thanks.

>>5488705
These are good suggestions! Metroid might be too slow for him, but I’m watching videos and I think he’d liked Mickey, Contra, Kirby, Sparkster, and maybe Castlevania!

[Anonymous No.5488946]

>>5488624
kirby super star
earthworm jim
donkey kong country
super gouls n ghosts

[Anonymous No.5488975]

>>5488624
Sword Maniac. (japanese version for the superior soundtrack)
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures.
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
Ganbare Goemon 2.
Pocky & Rocky 1&2.
First Samurai.
Axelay.
Actraiser 2.
Super Ghouls n Ghosts.
Lemmings.
Donkey Kong 1&2.
Nosferatu.
Earthworm Jim 1&2.
Wild Guns.
The King of Dragons.
Super R-Type.
F-Zero.
Mega Man X.
The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse.
Trinea.
Neugier.
Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventure.
Assault Suits Valken.
DoReMi Fantasy.
Zombies ate my neighbours.
The Firemen.
Knights of the Round.

[Anonymous No.5488982]

>>5488691
Genesis confirmed as the console for the illiterate.

[Anonymous No.5488983]

>>5488624
Star Fox

[Anonymous No.5489707]

>>5488624
Mario is Missing.

[Anonymous No.5490465]

>>5488946
>>5488975
Awesome lists, thanks. I think he’ll really like platformers. TwinBee, DoReMi, and Earthworm Jim! Mega Man X looks like fun too. I only played Mega Man 2 or 3 when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.5490475]

>>5488624
Get him a fucking book.
God I hate the monkey families that ruin these kids with this retardation.
I'm dyslexic. I made it to med school.
It doesn't mean you can't read, it means nonsense words are difficult/impossible to deal with, it's almost like you can't even see them or they're in a different language.

Guess what, when your shitty family treats you like a retard EVERY WORD IS A NONSENSE WORD. The more you read/write and force yourself to become familliar with words you learn to chunk them into shapes that make sense.
I guess technically, I can't actually read.
And yes, drug names and shit are fucking hell to me and it takes me longer than my peers to get shit down.
Attention issues in dyslexics tend to be secondary to the difficulty of academics when you cant fucking "see" text and no one understands why. And no you don't see shit mirrored. In my case it's an issue though since I'm writing this instead of studying for my 3 clinicals this week.

[Anonymous No.5490480]

>>5490475
Yfw there's a decent amount of studies proving dyslexia to be fake.

Man, the excuses some people use to justify their preference toward Genesis. We get it, Sonic go real fast.

[Anonymous No.5490482]

>>5490480
unironically video games forced me to learn how to "read"

[Anonymous No.5490502]

>>5490482
Yeah, but it's still fake. Do you have fibromyalgia, too?

Aside from fake catch-all "disorders", often hiding underlying cause, I'm with you on not encouraging retards to stay retarded.

Congrats on med school, bro.

[Anonymous No.5490641]

>>5490475
Seriously congrats on med school and overcoming your dyslexia.
For what it’s worth, my family is trying to help him, and I’m not looking to just give him a chew toy like another anon said. I just want him to have some more games to play, he likes retro games and has fun playing Mario. He’s not a retard and we don’t treat him like one— we actually just found out earlier this year he was illiterate. He’s 9 and somehow hid it from everyone. We’re getting him tutoring and trying to help him learn ways to read.
Your experience about recognising the words as shapes is really interesting, that’s good context for me. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.5490654]

No one has mentioned Star Fox? It's the best game they ever released on SNES in my honest opinion, besides the original SNES Mechwarrior

[Anonymous No.5490660]

>>5490654
broaden your horizon then

[Anonymous No.5490676]

Majuu Ou, there's a fan translation baking it "King of demons" though I guess in this case it doesn't matter. I've only played the first couple of hours but the gameplay is really solid

[Anonymous No.5490724]

>>5488624
>minor ADD
so he's a kid?
Tell him to wait being a fag and to read. Why are you concerned about what your obviously younger than you cousin does, Anon. Are you a spic?

[Anonymous No.5490760]

>>5490654
You fucking serious?

[Anonymous No.5490779]

>>5490641
>He’s not a retard and we don’t treat him like one— we actually just found out earlier this year he was illiterate. He’s 9 and somehow hid it from everyone. We’re getting him tutoring and trying to help him learn ways to read.
None of that will work unless he's personally motivated to learn how to read

[Anonymous No.5490784]

>>5488624
Jrpgs

[Anonymous No.5490792]

>>5490779
True, but I think he is. He was embarrassed about not being able to read, not intentionally avoiding reading. We’ll see. I’m just trying to get him some games to play. I guess games with super basic reading level text could be a decent starter for him to get motivated, too.

>>5490724
My mom and her sister are just really close, we live nearby and our families have been close all my life. We’re not spics. I’m just an only child so being close to my cousin has been cool.

>>5490654
Star Fox was mentioned here
>>5488983
He might like it but it also had pretty dated 3D graphics, I think he’ll like nice 2D graphics (like Yoshi’s Island, Contra, or the TwinBee game mentioned earlier) more than shitty 3D graphics.

[Anonymous No.5490793]

>>5488628
Nosferatu!

[Anonymous No.5490857]

>people replying to a thread that subtly calls SNES players retards

[Anonymous No.5490861]

>>5490857
Stop being so paranoid.

[Anonymous No.5490865]

>>5488983
blazing 12 fps

[Anonymous No.5490870]

Super Castlevania IV

>>5490792
For what it's worth, I did learn a lot of english by playing stuff like Pokemon when I was like 7 or 8. Might not be the best place to start, but I guess when you get ball rolling something like that would also help.

[Anonymous No.5490936]

>>5490870
That’s encouraging! I’m glad to hear it does help. I think he’ll need tutoring for a base, but I hope games will keep him interested.

[Anonymous No.5490954]

>>5490641
>He’s 9 and somehow hid it from everyone.
There is no way in hell a kid kept that hidden for four years of school. It's more likely the teachers ignored it on purpose. I think this is grounds for a lawsuit as schools have obligations to all students, especially those with difficulties. Teachers like that ruin lives, get them raked over the coals.

On topic though, Just about any platformer.

[Anonymous No.5490958]

>>5490857
Who cares about OP, just discuss /vr/ stuff instead of trying to be snarky.

[Anonymous No.5490964]

>>5490958
cringe

[Anonymous No.5490971]

>>5490936
I never had any learning disorders, but video games were definitely a big factor in me learning to read better and faster so I could keep up with auto-scrolling text and auto-advancing text boxes. I generally found reading in games more engaging than reading books, too. Hopefully it helps out your cousin, if he finds something that he really wants to be able to read well that will motivate him to take the tutoring seriously.

[Anonymous No.5491139]

>>5490502
It really isn't fake. It isn't necessarily crippling, but I grew up with it. I had a fair amount of trouble learning to read, and as the stereotype goes I'd flip letters and numbers a lot. I still do from time to time now.
Hell, I even once without meaning to accidentally built a nonsymetrical lego set backwards. When I was done, I was having trouble closing the doors and I couldn't figure out why. My dad took a look and realized the entire thing was flipped. I was just "lucky" enough that it almost worked out.
It's not something that ruins you for life but it's definitely a thing.

[Anonymous No.5491163]

>>5488624
Every Illiterate Adult I've ever encountered has been a huge Piece of Shit.

>Illiteracy is a Choice.

[Anonymous No.5491164]

>>5490482
I learned to read by playing Maniac Mansion.

[Anonymous No.5491175]

lol instead of giving him vidya games, maybe consider giving him a book that will teach him to read

[Anonymous No.5491361]

>>5488624

lol instead of giving him vidya games, maybe consider giving him
>Hooked On Phonics...

[Anonymous No.5491397]

>>5490641
Dyslexia can be compensated by executive functioning, but it basically requires constant effort. In my case it was mild and I would simply be incapable of differentiating the correct spelling from the wrong one in my memory, or I would say words with opposite meaning or write a different word that I was thinking instead of what I meant to write. It's like a computer program that corrupts the data every time you have to save it so you constantly go back and correct. People with dyslexia can learn to read and write, it just takes like 2-3 times as long.

[Anonymous No.5492217]

>>5491175
My youngest learned to read by playing teh pokemans long before they started teaching it at school. What do children of millennials learn at home? How to tip a fedora and sniff their own farts?

[Anonymous No.5492221]

>>5490865
git gud

[Anonymous No.5492378]

>>5488624
The ADD is the real culprit there. I'm dyslexic and I can read because I bloody forced myself to keep up with the other kids. I've worked with a person who let his dyslexia ruin his literacy and I know he could have becomes perfectly normally literate if he didn't allow himself to fall into the 'I can't read' mindset. The extra difficulty becomes an excuse not to try, in the end.

If he's still young with a spongelike mind, slap some literacy into him at any cost, m8.

[Anonymous No.5492387]

>>5488624
platformers and shooters will be your bread and butter
also some beat em ups, run and guns and some misc arcade ports

if you're a richfag just get a sd2snes and dump the entire set onto it

[Anonymous No.5492389]

>>5490954
>It's more likely the teachers ignored it on purpose. I
What kind of shithouse education system is this? I was in danger of getting kicked out of prep (post kindergarten, pre-grade 1 in Australia) for not being able to read (dyslexia). By grade 1 you absolutley have to have basic literacy down or you don't get schooled. And that is frankly how it should be. Forced my Mum to make sure I did know and allowed to to grow up non-retarded. Well, as non-retarded as a 4chan Austraian shitposter can be.

[Anonymous No.5492392]

>>5492389
>allowed to to
There's that bloody dyslexia at work again. Made up, my arse.

[Anonymous No.5492704]

>>5492389
It’s America, and I wouldn’t be surprised if lazy teachers ignored it and didn’t want to deal with the problem. I don’t know much about his situation, just want to give him some games to have fun with while he’s dealing with all of this. I’m not surprised to hear Australia has a better education system. The American midwest lives up to their reputation once again.

>>5492378
Also I think you’re right, the ADD made him fall behind as much as he did. I don’t think he needs meds for it or anything, but I hope my aunt doesn’t put him on some. He’s not like a spaz, just has a lot of energy. I’ll do what I can to slap some literacy into him!

>>5491397
I’m really enjoying hearing your experience with dyslexia! I don’t know much about it and my cousin’s too young to explain what it’s like, he just says he has trouble seeing the words. Is it different for different people, or is your experience pretty similar to dyslexia in general?

>>5492387
No money for an sd2snes (plus don’t those take a few minutes to load each ROM?), but yeah I was thinking run’n’guns, platformers, and shooters are probably the way to go. Best em ups are a good suggestion too!

[Anonymous No.5492838]

>>5488624
The only reason to play old games is nostalgia. For every single one, there's a more recent game that does everything better. Don't push your smelly nerd shit on others.

[Anonymous No.5492839]

>>5488624
A flash cart with every game. If the menu is text-only, make him a little chart with pictures of the games next to the titles in the same font.

[Anonymous No.5492890]

Can we just talk about video games

[Anonymous No.5492891]

>>5488624

[Anonymous No.5492959]

>>5492890
>Can we just talk about video games
>Doens't talk about video games

[Anonymous No.5494820]

>>5492890
we’ve literally been talking about video games
what’s your favorite ADD game for snes, anon?

[Anonymous No.5494947]

If he can't understand english then just make him play through a bunch of obscure untranslated JRPGs and put them up on youtube for that sweet weeb ad revnue.

[Anonymous No.5495553]

Would you notice him being marginally retarded in other areas? For example trouble speaking coherently, confused easily, likes Sega, that sort of thing?

[Anonymous No.5495576]

>>5495553
>likes Sega
uncalled for

[Anonymous No.5496306]

>ITT 4chan threads think they know better than medical professionals
If OP has a lick of sense he wont listen to any of you retards and your "it just takes willpower snowflake!!!" nonsense

[Anonymous No.5498624]

>>5496306
Don’t worry, I’ve been around long enough to know not to listen to the shitposts

[Anonymous No.5500830]

why