Best SNES Games?

[jeepnut24]

Im new to the SNES, and I searched for a list here and didn't find one. So what are some of the top SNES games. I need to track a few down for a friend. Thanks again.

[guitarmas]

I'm saying Super Metroid or Secret of Mana.

[liveinabin]

The Mario games - particularly Super Mario World, Mario Kart and Yoshi's island are all great.

There are lots of great RPGs, I love Chrono Trigger (though I doubt you'll find that cheap).

Another killer title that is less well known than it ought to be is Uniracers. SO much fun with another player.

What else.....wow, there were so many great games on that system..

Super Bomberman is great..um..Street Fighter 2 turbo is a really solid conversion..F-Zero is pretty cool...help me out here guys Too many games.

[JB]

Some titles I recommend...

 

Super Mario World.

Super Mario Kart.

Super Metroid.

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. (Hey, it's not super Zelda!)

Illusion of Gaia. (Often overlooked in favor of Zelda and Metroid, but a damn fun action-adventure nonetheless.)

Arkanoid: Doh It Again. (Get a mouse. 2 if you intend to play 2-player.)

[AtticGamer]

I say:

Super Mario World

The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers

Mario Paint

Sim City.

[RxRated]

Try to find the cart with the 3 original mario games plus super mario world.

I think it's called super mario all stars.

[JB]

Try to find the cart with the 3 original mario games plus super mario world.

I think it's called super mario all stars. 

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Mario AllStars contains remakes of the 3 NES games, plus a remake of the japanese Super Mario 2.

 

Mario AllStars + World adds Mario World to the mix. With a nice cosmetic tweak in that Luigi uses his own sprite instead of a Mario pallete swap.

[tmont]

Mario AllStars contains remakes of the 3 NES games, plus a remake of the japanese Super Mario 2.

Remakes that suck, no less. Basically the programmers took all of the nice idiosyncrasies (or glitches) out of the first two Mario games, added 16-bit graphics, and re-released them. Then they actually added a glitch to SMB3. Being able to play SMB2j is cool, though.

 

My favorites are:

 

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Donkey Kong Country

Mega Man X

The 7th Saga

[awsomo3000]

Another killer title that is less well known than it ought to be is Uniracers.  SO much fun with another player.

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Uniracers is defintly awesome, It's what made me decide to take up unicycling.

The super nintendo is actualy my favorate system, I would suggest the donkey kong country games (except maybe the third one, it's not too great). The mortal kombat games are also super great. And all the mario games of corse ( and don't forget the some what forgotten super mario RPG). Super nintendo metroid is hard, I like mario all stars. Those are some of the best ones that some to mind right now...although super nintendo has an endless verity of super awesome great games...soo it's not hard to find a great one..

Edited December 2, 2005 by awsomo3000

[maibock]

Im new to the SNES, and I searched for a list here and didn't find one. So what are some of the top SNES games. I need to track a few down for a friend. Thanks again.

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lol wtf, man? you disappear for a few months and then you come back with some generic post? How did the move go?!

 

[JB]

Mario AllStars contains remakes of the 3 NES games, plus a remake of the japanese Super Mario 2.

Remakes that suck, no less. Basically the programmers took all of the nice idiosyncrasies (or glitches) out of the first two Mario games, added 16-bit graphics, and re-released them.

In my opinion, missing a few glitches doesn't make the remakes suck.

And they added "16-bit" sound, too.

 

Personally, I felt it was a mixed bag.

 

 

 

I'm gonna focus mainly on the first game, as it's the one I'm most familiar with(having never actually owned an NES Mario 3 cart) as well as the one that was originally most distant from the SNES' capabilities and thus the most radically changed.

 

 

General commentary:

The save function was nice, especially for Mario 3.

 

The addition of a "VS mode" to 3 was equally appreciated.

 

The new soundtrack is an either/or. I can make an argument in both directions, though I'm leaning towards the SNES "remix."

 

Saving the # of players was NOT appreciated, though I can see the logic in Mario 3 given the extensive amount of player-specific data.

 

 

 

Mario 1/Lost Levels specific commentary:

The graphical "splash" at the "world x-x" screen greatly improved the overall presentation. Sure we didn't REALLY need a terrain sample/enemy present indicator, but the game just looks nicer without that big black space.

 

While the greater graphical detail is nice, I liked the "harsher" design of the NES graphics. One of the first things I noticed was the ? blocks didn't have rivets, and the bricks carried a "glassy" look.

 

Really, there was no really good excuse for not adding a life indicator to the status bar in 1/2j aside from excessive attention to detail. It's a fault that should've been fixed, if only as an option(directly above the coin indicator is a good place for "mario-head x #").

 

2j's poison mushrooms are somewhat defeated by making them neon purple. The point was originally that they looked VERY similar to the regular fungus, so if you weren't paying close enough attention you might grab them accidentally on-purpose.

Sure it was evil, but...

 

 

Mario 3 commentary:

While maintaining seperate sprites for the Mario 3 mushroom was a nice bit of attention to detail, Mario 3's angular mushroom just looks ugly. They should've used the same 'shroom as they did with 1 and 2j, especially as the one used for 1/2j was ALREADY so close to the Mario 3 version(and almost wholely unrelated to Mario 1's original fungus anyways).

 

Mario 2 commentary:

Ummm...

[tmont]

In my opinion, missing a few glitches doesn't make the remakes suck.

And they added "16-bit" sound, too.

I actually just bought this game from someone here, and I was bitterly disappointed in SMB2(USA) in general. I have a fairly intimate knowledge of the NES version, and that things that made it fun were the glitches (i.e. double jump, getting enemies stuck in walls, etc.), and they were eliminated. Granted, they were programming errors, but it would've been much cooler had they been left in. One nice/interesting thing they added to SMB2(USA) was that if you die, they allow you to change characters in the middle of the level, which was not possible on the NES version: you were stuck with whoever you chose for that level until you lost all of your lives. Also the background in 6-1 is particularly annoying, because Toad and the background have similar colors, so it's kind of hard to see yourself. The NES version had a much better contrast, which isn't really that important, but I've played a lot of Mario 2, so I noticed it.

 

I haven't experimented with the Mario 1 remake, but I heard they took out the walking through walls and wall jumping glitches, so no minus world. They might have fixed the "little fiery mario" glitch as well. The glitch they added in SMB3 is not actually not possible on a console (without a modded controller), but they left this game alone for some reason. You can still walk through walls and all that good stuff.

 

I don't particularly care for the 16-bit sound. Especially in SMB/SMB2j; it's too distorted or something. But this is all moot for me anyway, since I own all three of the first Mario games for NES.

Edited December 2, 2005 by HeckYesIDid

[figgler]

Here's a few that may not immediately jump out, but all are great nonetheless;

 

the Final Fight trilogy

Demon's Crest

Actraiser

World Heroes 1 & 2

TMNT 4

Super Adventure Island (best music ever!)

Batman Returns

the Super Star Wars trilogy

Inidana Jones' Greatest Adventures

Ninja Warriors

Saturday Night Slam Masters

Clayfighter

[jeepnut24]

Im new to the SNES, and I searched for a list here and didn't find one. So what are some of the top SNES games. I need to track a few down for a friend. Thanks again.

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lol wtf, man? you disappear for a few months and then you come back with some generic post? How did the move go?!

 

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Very good actually. We are settled in and Graduate school is going well. Taking a graphics class next semester and then the advanced class next year. Maybe Ill get into game programming...

 

A WHOLE LOT of new game hunting locations here in Denver.

[jeepnut24]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. Ill be certain to look into them. Sounds like I may need to track down a SNES one of these days too. We had the Sega instead so we missed out.

[JB]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. Ill be certain to look into them. Sounds like I may need to track down a SNES one of these days too. We had the Sega instead so we missed out.

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I understand that.

I was an SNES house. The glory of the Genesis was never experienced here.

Since getting one, I've found that they're damn fun machines.

[jeepnut24]

I understand that.

I was an SNES house. The glory of the Genesis was never experienced here.

Since getting one, I've found that they're damn fun machines.

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From the sounds of things and through a little searching, it looks like the SNES was one of the most liked consoles of all time game wise.

[JB]

I understand that.

I was an SNES house. The glory of the Genesis was never experienced here.

Since getting one, I've found that they're damn fun machines.

975201[/snapback]

 

 

From the sounds of things and through a little searching, it looks like the SNES was one of the most liked consoles of all time game wise.

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It WAS pretty popular.

 

While the Genesis/SNES battle DID end in a draw, the SNES was the follower of the NES, which had... 95%? of the US market. So it won a lot of affection by association.

And the superior AV hardware means it doesn't show its age as bad as the Genesis, so the more modern-inclined gamers haven't seen a reason to kick it out. Sadly, the Genesis DOES show its age, and while it isn't a good reason, many have banished it for not looking/sounding as pretty.

[adams_ale]

I understand that.

I was an SNES house. The glory of the Genesis was never experienced here.

Since getting one, I've found that they're damn fun machines.

975201[/snapback]

 

 

From the sounds of things and through a little searching, it looks like the SNES was one of the most liked consoles of all time game wise.

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And for good reason. In my opinion the SNES was the best system Nintendo put out to date. It has a plethora of good if not great games.

 

If your still looking here are some to pick up:

 

Super Mario Kart

ActRaiser

Super Mario Allstars

Final Fantasy II

Final Fantasy III

Contra III

Chrono Trigger

Street Fighter II Championship Edition(or any for that matter)

Legend of Zelda(all Zelda titles)

Mortal Kombat III

Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2

Secret of Mana

Lufia II

Starfox

Super Metroid

Super Castlevania

 

and many, many more......

Edited December 2, 2005 by adams_ale

[Dones]

Would like to add Super Ghouls'n'Ghosts to the list.

 

Some of these are not so well known or exactly triple A, but still great titles to check out (depending on taste):

 

Axelay

Brandish

Demon's Crest

Dragon View

Gradius III

Capcom beat em ups (eg Final Fight 3, King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, Magic Sword, Captain Commando)

Metal Warriors

NinjaWarriors

Ninja Gaiden Trilogy

Prince of Persia

Shadowrun

Super Adventure Island

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

Wing Commander

Zombies Ate my Neighbors

[joeybastard]

I'd agree with pretty much everybody's suggestions but would add:

 

Choplifter 3

Desert Strike

Ka-blooey

Lost Vikings

Pilot Wings

[8th lutz]

Soulblazer

final fight one

final fight 2

Earth Bound

Luffia & the Fortress of Doom

[JimmydelaKopin]

Hey, don't forget Tuff-E-Nuff (great little fighting game, and the code for using the computer characters are in plenty of old magazines) and Shanghai (Activision made a great puzzle game--and the music is to die for!).

[vdub_bobby]

A couple of years ago I scoured the net looking for game rankings of older consoles, then I compiled them to come up with a list.

 

Here's the top of the SNES list (in order):

Chrono Trigger

Ogre Battle

Super Mario World

Donkey Kong Country

Final Fantasy III

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The

Super Metroid

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Super Bomberman 2

Super Mario All-Stars

Secret of Mana

Contra III: The Alien Wars

Super Castlevania 4

Terranigma

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Earthbound

Final Fantasy II

Super Mario Kart

Breath of Fire 2

Tetris and Dr. Mario

Mega Man X

ActRaiser

Killer Instinct

Illusion of Gaia (Illusion of Time)

Plok

Cybernator

Robotrek

Secret of Evermore

Soul Blazer

Starfox

Shadow Run

7th Saga

 

I haven't played most of these, by the way, so take it with a grain of salt. For each of these games I was able to find at least 5 separate, somewhat credible ratings. The Legend of Zelda: ALTTP had the most ratings; it had 11.

 

EDIT: Of the ones I've played, I'd rate Super Mario Kart tops, followed by Super Metroid, Zelda, and Killer Instinct.

Edited December 2, 2005 by vdub_bobby

[MattG/Snyper2099]

Add "On the ball" to your liat... Great puzzle game!