50. The Flintstones
Terrible game. Only reason it’s here is because when I was on ‘Video and Arcade’s Top 10’ this was the game I played, and won.
49. Out of this World
Escaping the opening scene where that Lion or whatever chases you, and you have to do that jump. It’s fuckin’ hard. Then the first thing the freak in the cage says will resonate throughout my cousin’s and I’s inside humour – Mahtouva!
48. Super Bases Loaded
First baseball game on the SNES. It definitely had its flaws, but I played the hell out of it.
49. Out of This World
I feel like I’ve played 5 different versions of this game. But either way, once you get used to the controls of this game (Which take quite a bit of patience) it’s actually really cool. It has killer graphics, great SFX, music, and neat stage design. It has no weapons, just jumping and traps! Pretty neat! Actually, there are sword fights I hear, but I’ve never gotten that far. Ha!
48. Boxing Legends of the Ring
I pumped a lot of hours into this game trying to max out my guys stats and take out the greatest boxers of all time. It has a cool mechanic that shows how badly you're getting your ass kicked. Your face starts to get all busted up, and things start to flash and get white when you're about to fall. You had a ladder to climb on your way to being number one in the world, and the music is also pretty rad in the menu screens.
47. Jurassic Park
I think because I was just such a huge fan of the movie, I fell in love with this game. Top down look, it was actually pretty good. Never got far in it…. I need to finish it. Dr. Allan GRANT!
46. Killer Instinct
Graphics were incredible. Donkey Kong, Stunt Race, and Killer Instinct all set new boundaries for graphics. This one was also a brutal killing Mortal Kombat game. Controls were pretty decent.
36. Bart’s Nightmare
You entered different realms, the graphics were great, lots of mini games in it, and you already know and love the characters. Finally, a good game where you’re playing as the Simpsons. Holy fucking shit this game is hard though.
45. Super Bomber Man
Everybody loves a good bomberman game. Lots of fun items, and 2 players action. Wicked. Don’t kill yourself, don’t put the bomb there! No!!….. fuck.
42. NCAA Basketball
Picked the Huskies everytime, and always passed it to a guy who was 65% at 3-pointers. Never lost a game. It was the first time I ever got into basketball. It was really well made; until NBA Jam came along, that it.
31. Super Baseball 2020
Now the baseball games are starting to get REALLY good. This game was just a shit load of fun. Busted pitchers, smoking balls out of the park, smashing it on glass, batters with .800 averages and 99 homeruns… but they can only swing once a game. Just filled with so many innovative ideas. They designed this game with one mission: Fun.
I played this for the first time at my friend Guybrush’s place in Chicago. We ordered Thai food, and finished them game in 4 hours. It was one of the fondest memories I’ve ever had playing a SNES game. Killer soundtrack, solid controls, and fun story!
38. Mega Man 7
The one where you had to only fight 4 bosses?!? Huh? Then another 4 showed up, then another 15, then you switch characters, then you rule the world.
37. Mortal Kombat
First port from arcade. The game was no where NEAR as good as the arcade version. Quite a let down. And no blood? They made MK pg13? Wtf?
36. Blackthorn
Having prisoners chained looking at the ground. And then they left their heads up, and your double barrel shotgun if pointing RIGHT at their face, and you can blow them away. Fuckin’ awesome. It was castlevania but you have a fuckin’ unlimited ammo shotgun. I guess Lost Vikings would be a better comparison. But man, this game was wicked. Blowing the shit outta everyone and everything.
35. Super Smash TV
Big money, big prizes, I loooooove it! GO GO GO GO GO ! I’d buy that for a dollar. NOOO WAYYYYY!!!! … need I say anymore?
34. X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
Pick as Psylocke, Cyclops, Wolverine, beast, Gambit, all with their own attacks and moves. Battle Omega Red, Magneto, all the coolest Xmen bosses. Solid gameplay, quite difficult, and amazing characters.
33. Yoshi’s Cookie
Can’ count the amount of hours I spent playing this game. SOO Addictive. Different characters have difference specials, and speeds. It was Tetris to like, the next 20 levels. Really cool.
32. TMNT: Turtles in Time
They took all the successes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 for NES, and improved on it in everyway. Big Apple: 3am.
31. Soul Blazer
Mumumumumushrooooom! This game is a cool 'Secret of Mana' style game with a brutally addicting, awful, and fantastic soundtrack. The attacking mechanics aren't the best, and the game really isn't all that great, but rebuilding lands, and investigating the problems plaguing the land are kinda cool.
30. The Lost Vikings
Super addicted. Really challenging. There were puzzles in there that drove me insane. You have to utilize all three characters. One was super fast and could jump high. Another had a shield that you could springboard off and float, and another did something else, had a weapon or something? It was a lot of fun.
29. Top Gear 2
Best racing game ever made? It took everything that made Top Gear one successful, and then, oh yeah, how about we give you money for winning races, and let you buy insanely cool upgrades for your car.
28. Mega Man X
This is the one I remember most from SNES. Had lots of original boss ideas, good game play, alternate characters usages… crazy weapons.
27. Pocky and Rocky
amazing 2 player game. Cool weapon upgrades. One of the best 2 player co-op games made for SNES. So much fun.
26. Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
80% of people out there haven’t played this game. Well, they’re missing out. It’s Super Mario World but with magic, and Disney themed. They nailed this one. A stellar side scrolling adventure game. It’s Capcom - so no surprise its a high quality game.
25. Legend of the Mystical Ninja
There wasn’t actually anything amazing with this game. But on stage 4 I think it was, you get to a fair, and there’s all these mini games you get to play. So all the hard earned money you collected on your way there, you get to blow it at the race tracks. Friends and I would play just to get to the Fair area, and wouldn’t even care about finishing the game. We’d spend HOURS at the race tracks. It’s also a really good co-op two player game with fun Japanese graphics, and a good sense of humor
24. Super Tennis
One of the best tennis games I’ve still played to date. Incredibly simple, with 4 different ways to stroke the ball. Amy was hot.
23. Actraiser
My friend Guybrush showed me this game, and what a cool concept for a game! You are God, and in charge of keeping the lands safe from monsters. People grovel at your feet, and offer you gifts and weapons to use against fighting the evil. The game looks like 'Sim City' and you are building a landscape for people, but then the top down look transforms into a side scrolling action game when you go into dungeons to clean them out. It's really cool playing as God.
22. Alien 3
Speaking of blowing this shit outta things. You get upgradable flamethrowers, grenade launchers, and a machine gun. It really stayed true to the movies, as you get all these little missions to try and secure your area, gather resources to get the hell off that metal pit. Then you fight the AlienQueen at the end, who is just awesome.
21. Donkey Kong Country
Landmark in graphics for the SNES. Fun side scroller, lots of secrets, 2 different characeters, fun mini games, cool guys to ride (shark, rhino, etc)
20. F-Zero
Do I pick the blue one? Yellow? Green or Pink? This game was friggin wicked. Awesome soundtrack, great gameplay. This is one of the best racing games made for SNES, and it was one of the first.
19. Final Fight
Haggar and Cody rule the world. Watching them beat the shit outta people. The first boss looks like Randy macho man Savage, and you face these Giant looking fuckers from the WWF. They were tough. Fuckin’ awesome game. The last boss is in a wheelchair I think, hahaha.
18. NBA Jam: Tournament Edition
Great graphics, perfect game play, and 2on2 basketball. NBA Jam: TE scrapped the realism of sports in favour of pure fun - and it succeeded admirably. This game is a ton of fun. It gets a little repetitive (and frustrating) playing the computer, but if you have a buddy to play this with, it’s a blast.
17. Super Mario 2: Yoshi’s Island
Superbly made adventure game. Does everything Super Mario Bros did, and changed it up graphically. Didn’t have the depth as the original Super Mario Bros, but a worthy competitor.
16. Super Buster Bros
here’s a fun fact: Busting bubbles is fucking fun! Getting a machine gun to break them is even more fun. Fun backgrounds. For some reason, getting the background to change was the coolest part.
15. Street Fighter 2
The original coming over from the arcade had such unreal expectations, it wasn’t even funny. The whole world was waiting for this, and it didn’t disappoint. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than the MK transition. The world was changing, and this was the first sign of the death of arcades.
14. Sim City
Getting to a Metropolis without using the cheat I’ve confirmed is pretty much impossible. I always hated building in the Industrial zones. You learned a lot, and who woulda thought building a city and watching it grow for 3 months would be fun? Again, a landmark in games to come.
13. Mortal Kombat 2
Unlike the first one, MK2 was emulated perfectly onto the Nintendo. The blood was there, all the characters, the graphics were exactly the same, the gameplay the same. It was as near perfect as you could get to the real thing. Not to mention this game had wicked combos, and such a great variety of characters. They were almost all equally good, where street fighter really lacked character balance.
12. Star Fox
“You’re the best Slippy!” … 3d rendered graphics. Now it looks like shit, but back then, man. It was the cat’s ass, the bee’s knees. Best flying game ever made. Yep, I just said that.
11. NHL 94’
Best hockey game made for the SNES, by far. The game speed was perfect, not too fast, or slow. The one timers FINALLY work. The checking was wicked, you could make people bleed. Everything about it was good.
10. Final Fantasy III
I have a feeling this game would probably be way higher on this list, but I'm only 5 hours into the game. I love the Final Fantasy games, and it's a tragedy that I haven't played this game until I'm solidly into my 30's now. The story of magic being banned, and the protagonist being the only one who can use magic, and is in charge of saving the world is pretty badass. Like many turn based RPG's a lot of this game is just sitting there hitting one button over and over again until you kill the creature and then healing after battle, but the story and boss fights keep it really interesting.
9. Ken Griffey Jr’s Winning Run
Up until MVP 2005, this was the best baseball game ever made. Bull Gigante, Scorch McFadden, Sluggo Steel, SO many memorable characters that were completely made up. The only character in the game that was a true to the MLB, was obviously Griffey. But even thinking about it now, it was funny, amazing graphics, PERFECT game play and controls, had long, hard seasons, good stats, and trade values went up and down based on performance - brilliant. The first Griffey was too cartoonish, this one was fuckin’ amazing.
8. Super Punch Out!!
No Mike Tyson, but the brothers you face at the end were pretty tough. This one was way more bold, and cartoony. Fortunatley, that was a good thing. Bald Bull was back, everyone was there, and it was just wicked. A very fun sequel.
7. Street Fighter 2: Turbo Edition
Street Fighter finally made the clone transition over to port. Turbo let you play Champion OR Turbo in the same game, so it was already a 2 in 1. The graphics were near as good as the arcade, and the controls played exactly like the arcade. It was a street fighter 2 players dream.
6. Super Castlevania IV
Dark, brooding, and the clock tower stage that moved. My favorite Castlevania game of them all. Once again, it took the success of its predecessors and just ran with it.This game puts you in a mood, it is more than a video game, it becomes a part of you when you play it. This game really stuck to me, and always puts me in a gothic mood. I feel like listening to Dracula's music right now.
5. Super Mario World
It seems like any other Mario, but man, thinking back to this game, and the secret passages you can take, rainbow world (TUBULAR!) and all the different worlds you enter. Being able to pick your stage, again, it took what made Mario 3 so incredible, and made it better in every possible sense. The Mario’s consistently just keep getting better, and better.
4.Super Mario Kart
can you say… addictive? I played this game for years and years, hours upon hours each day, and never got tired of it. I even liked it better than the 64 version. There was something about this game. You get to race with your favorite characters, each has their own strength, fun items you can use, great stage variety, the best multiplayer game made on SNES, and you could do it over, and over, and over.
3. Super Metroid
The last 3 are interchangeable. Super Metroid is the shit. Facing Ridley and Kraid again was cool. The best part of this game, is that you start off, with… .EVERYTHING. You’re a mean fuckin’ killing machine. Then, you get sent back in, and you have nothing. You have to gather all your equipment again. This would be a template for games to come. The soundtrack was so eerie. Just a massive massive game which brought you into this crazy world, and you lost your mind trying to fight your way through it. A bounty hunter on a mission.
2. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
So amazing. Pretty much a flawless game. Music, character, gameplay, replay value, story, graphics. What isn’t there to like about this game? It’s so amazing, that even 10 years after it’s made, I still think about it, and want to play it and finish it. The storyline is whacked out, phasing in and out between worlds, trying to find Ganon and end his reign of terror over the light world. The definition of SNES … is this game.
1. Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the 7 Stars
An RPG that after I finished it, I started it up and played it again. This game is so vast, it has such fond memories from every part. You get to use 5 different lovable characters from Bowser, to Mario, to Princess and even a couple new characters. A straight forward, simple, graphically exciting RPG. It doesn’t hold the same ‘epicness’ as final fantasy’s or other famous SNES RPG’s, but being able to run things with Mario, controlling all characters, getting sweet upgrades, and an interactive battle system makes this game as charming as it is just fuckin’ awesome.
