Let's talk SNES games.

[J Arcane]

As my PC is going to be in the shop for probably the next month or so, I'm stuck gaming on my Mac most of the time.

One of the things that consumes a good portion of my gaming time as a result has been SNES emulation, because it's an easy source of a lot of cool games, and that platform in particular because it's about the only one that crooked fucker Richard Bannister hasn't gotten his grubby mitts into.

The main ones I've been playing lately are Tetrs & Dr. Mario, and Aerobiz Supersonic.

I've got this silly little Satteleview Kirby baseball/pinbally game, and it got me kind of craving some kind of baseball game. The only one I ever played for the SNES was Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, but I was looking something a bit more normal, as opposed to super powered robots. ;)

[Troggles]

My favorite games of all time where on SNES. First of all, there's Super Metroid. I don't think I need to go into detail about why. Second, there's Final Fantasy VI. My favorite of the series. Best characters, best story, best gameplay. It's just great. I could go on for a long ass time...

[The Doctor]

I've been fiending Super Punchout lately, even though I don't remember if it was actually any good. I just want to play more Punchout, and never really played it.

Maybe I should get Actraiser on VC once I finish Mega Man 9.. I seem to recall it getting pretty hard though.

[Superman's Dead]

For the record, I did not read the OP. I scrolled down immediately. I don't care what the question is.

Chrono. Trigger.

EDIT UPON READING: Great success!

[PlusOne]

For the record, I did not read the OP. I scrolled down immediately. I don't care what the question is.

Chrono. Trigger.

THIS.

Also, I hear Ken Griffey Jr. is a pretty good baseball game. My brother played the heck out of it back in the day, but I was more of a platformer / RPGer.

Yoshi's Island FTW.

[Karmakin]

Yoshi's Island is great. I prefer FFIV to FFVI (The second half of FFVI is horrible IMO. The first half is brilliant however.

The game I go back to the most, however, isn't any of the usual suspects. Not Chrono Trigger, not Super Metroid, not StarFox. Nope.

U.N. Squadron.

Great music, very intense gameplay that scales really well through difficulty levels, RPG-ish elements, a bit of strategy...it's a really good game.

[OrangePulp]

FF5! Class system = win.
Megaman X 1-3
Kirby Superstar
Contra 3 (might also check out Contra: Hard Corps on genesis)
Rock n Roll Racing
Turtles in Time
NBA Hangtime (He's on fire!)
EVO: The Search for Eden. If you haven't heard of this game, check it out; you start out in an era of evolution (fish, dinosaurs, mammals) and you kill dudes to get evolution points, and evolve new parts.

[That Darn Kat]

Because it's worth mentioning again: Yoshi's Island.

[PlusOne]

U.N. Squadron.

Great music, very intense gameplay that scales really well through difficulty levels, RPG-ish elements, a bit of strategy...it's a really good game.

I might have to try that. I've been missing some 16-bit goodness in my life lately, and I can honestly say I know next to nothing about that game.

Also:
Earthworm Jim!
Castlevania IV
and the blister-on-the-thumb-inducing Mario Kart.

[Lekon]

Aside from that mentioned before: Metal Warriors, and Terrainagama. Both are awesome in ways words can't begin to describe.

[Nameless]

Yoshi's Island, FFVI, and Chrono Trigger as mentioned previously. Also,there was this awesome game called Metal Combat 2 or something along those lines that involved the Super Scope which I fear will be lost to time, despite its awesomeness, because you can't accurately reproduce the feeling of destroying giant mechs with some sort of huge bazooka-peripheral.

I miss that game. I wish my Super Scope still worked. And that I had an SNES, for that matter.

[Vyzov]

Aerobiz Supersonic.

One of my favourite games, although I believe I had it for Genesis.

[Xerxes]

I spent a lot of time playing Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge. :)


See in my mind, this is the part where the music would stop and someone would break a beer bottle on the bar. He'd then stare at me with a quite ornery disposition. While walking towards me he'd remark, "You son of bitch."

[BLeeP]

If you are looking for some good Japanese oddness, Go Go Ackman 1-3 are pretty good action platformers that never made it out in the states. You play as a demon who looks almost exactly like Trunks from DBZ (you even use a sword!) and you are fighting angels who want to do some stuff (including be gay with you).

There are the classics if you never got around to them. Games such as the Donkey Kong Country Trilogy, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Super Punch Out!! (one of the best games ever), and so forth are always fun to play no matter how many times you have gone through them.

Random List of Awesome Stuff:

Zombies Ate My Neighbors!
The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (great Zelda: LttP clone where you play as a cute vampire)
Super Ninja Boy (really addicting RPG where the random encounters are done double dragon style, plus it has co-op)
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (Great series that needs to be revived, and I don't mean that stupid Tactics Ogre BS)
MegaMan X Trilogy (the perfect evolution of the Megaman franchise)
Kirby Super Star (pure fucking fun)


All of that awesomenes should keep you busy for a good long while. Enjoy what is probably the best system ever made (except for maybe the DS).

[Xerxes]

Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (Great series that needs to be revived, and I don't mean that stupid Tactics Ogre BS)

/break a beer bottle on the bar
/stare with an ornery disposition

"You son of bitch." :mad:

[evilgoodwin]

What, nobody mentioned Zelda besides Spike McFang being a clone? For shame! I always loved playing the old Zelda's to see if I still remember where everything is and if I can get through the dungeons insanely fast. Always miss one piece of heart, nowadays >_<

Secret of Mana is nice, along with Mega Man X, Chrono Trigger, Ken Griffy Jr. Baseball (My friends still play this), and a bunch of classics.

Super Mario World
F-Zero
FFIV, V, and VI
Metroid
Castlevania

There's just too many.

And Nameless: the game is Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Combat:_Falcon%27s_Revenge) and it's the sequel to Battle Clash, another mech game featuring the Super Scope

[hunterx280]

I spent a lot of time playing Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge. :)


See in my mind, this is the part where the music would stop and someone would break a beer bottle on the bar. He'd then stare at me with a quite ornery disposition. While walking towards me he'd remark, "You son of bitch."

Xerxes, I loved that game. Although I remember it being hard as hell back when I was 12 or however old I was when I played it but maybe I just sucked at it. Either way, I'm down for a bar room brawl!


EVO: The Search for Eden. If you haven't heard of this game, check it out; you start out in an era of evolution (fish, dinosaurs, mammals) and you kill dudes to get evolution points, and evolve new parts.

It's funny, as soon as I heard of Spore I thought of EVO. On some levels they are very similar. At least at the early stages. Pretty much up until the tribal stage but either way it's pretty much evolve better stuff, kill things more easily.

[Wasson_]

Yoshi's Island is great. I prefer FFIV to FFVI (The second half of FFVI is horrible IMO. The first half is brilliant however.

The game I go back to the most, however, isn't any of the usual suspects. Not Chrono Trigger, not Super Metroid, not StarFox. Nope.

U.N. Squadron.

Great music, very intense gameplay that scales really well through difficulty levels, RPG-ish elements, a bit of strategy...it's a really good game.

/points at avatar.
Granted, I always would choose Greg as my pilot.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a338/jmglov/un-squadron.jpg

But yeah, I played the shit outta U.N. Squadron, I still remember almost all the music, it was great.

http://www.vertexguy.com/music/subcat.htm
scroll down until you see his version of the U.N. Squadron theme, it's awesome.


but my favorite is Super Metroid and I also played Star Fox religiously when I first got it. Mega Man X is one of my favorites too.

[BLeeP]

/break a beer bottle on the bar
/stare with an ornery disposition

"You son of bitch." :mad:

I was harsh, I know. I've never even played a Tactics Ogre game, and they might be great. All I know is that they switched their focus from doing unique console strategy games over to doing same same turn based strategy RPGs. I just miss Ogre Battle 8-(.

[grimmjow]

Demon's Crest is a must play game

[Wasson_]

EVO: The Search for Eden. If you haven't heard of this game, check it out; you start out in an era of evolution (fish, dinosaurs, mammals) and you kill dudes to get evolution points, and evolve new parts.

EVO was one of those games that I rented...only ONCE. and the next time I fancied to try it again, It had been replaced / was gone. But It was so memorable that I remembered it to this day and actually played quite a bit of it on an emulator this last winter. pretty cool game.

[Gorvi]

Demon's Crest is a must play game
I was just coming in to post that very game. Awesome.
I was harsh, I know. I've never even played a Tactics Ogre game, and they might be great. All I know is that they switched their focus from doing unique console strategy games over to doing same same turn based strategy RPGs. I just miss Ogre Battle 8-(.
Now, to be fair, Tactics Ogre came out before all those other SRPGs for the most part, it damn near started the genre. Sure, you had some of the Shining Force games before the original Tactics Ogre, but TO really defined a lot of what most SRPGs these days are.

EDIT: I still love Pilotwings, I'd love to see Nintendo bring that one back. Is that or the N64 version on the Virtual Console?

[mister slim]

One of my favourite games, although I believe I had it for Genesis.

Why isn't Aerobiz on Virtual Console!?

[Xerxes]

Now, to be fair, Tactics Ogre came out before all those other SRPGs for the most part, it damn near started the genre. Sure, you had some of the Shining Force games before the original Tactics Ogre, but TO really defined a lot of what most SRPGs these days are.

And some games are still playing catch up.:rolleyes:

Ok maybe that's a bit much.

[Troggles]

I just realized this thread has failed up until this point.
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/uniracers-cover.jpg

[Wackman3000]

I just realized this thread has failed up until this point.
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/uniracers-cover.jpg

Oh man, if any game needs a remake for this generation, it's this game.

[Widgetcraft]

The SNES has the best library of games ever; end of story.

[J Arcane]

The SNES has the best library of games ever; end of story.
I dunno, man. As primarily a PC game lover, the Genesis had a lot to love. I mean, it had Star Control. That alone is pretty fuckin' sweet.

If it weren't for the only Genesis emulators for Mac being Bannister ports, I'd probably be hunting for Genesis games too.

[muddi900]

Did your so called "Super" Nintendo had Blast Processing?

Worst. Thread. Ever [/comic book guy]

[Kielaran]

My absolute favorite SNES game hasn't been mentioned Super Mario RPG. I spent countless hours playing it. Also, I wish the super scope was done a bit better. It was so much fun, but its inaccuracy was my bane.

[pomeroy]

Pilotwings!

Edit: Gorvi beat me to it. At least someone else remembered it...

[Widgetcraft]

My absolute favorite SNES game hasn't been mentioned Super Mario RPG. I spent countless hours playing it. Also, I wish the super scope was done a bit better. It was so much fun, but its inaccuracy was my bane.

The cart included with the Super Scope wasn't half bad, either. I enjoyed the Tetris clone quite a bit. It also had excellent music, oddly enough.

[Kielaran]

The cart included with the Super Scope wasn't half bad, either. I enjoyed the Tetris clone quite a bit. It also had excellent music, oddly enough.

The games themselves were great, but I was always frustrated by shooting at one thing and having my shot not be where I thought I had placed it.

[Suave Peanut]

Legend of the Mystical Ninja

Do it now.

[Wilkz07]

the best snes game i played when i had one was The Secret of Evermore. Awesome squaresoft game and Mario RPG.

my next wii points purchase is going to be Mario RPG, think its only 800pts.

[VerseD]

Super Mario, Yoshi's Island, Chrono Trigger, FF6, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, and Earthworm Jim.

I also really liked the Donkey Kong Country games, especially number 2, which had some really fun stage themes.

[flogging.joey]

oh cmon, no tales of phantasia love? i never get tired of that game. also, r-type for any system is always a quality choice.

[Kielaran]

oh cmon, no tales of phantasia love? i never get tired of that game. also, r-type for any system is always a quality choice.

Hey it's joey! Wow, 13 posts, that must be a record for you:p

[Zero]

The SNES has the best library of games ever; end of story.

Absolutely. I have triple the amount of games for the SNES than I have for the Genesis.

[Widgetcraft]

Wooh, I'm righting something that once went wrong... I just started playing Super Mario RPG for the first time!

[Wolvie]

My favorite games of all time where on SNES. First of all, there's Super Metroid. I don't think I need to go into detail about why. Second, there's Final Fantasy VI. My favorite of the series. Best characters, best story, best gameplay. It's just great. I could go on for a long ass time...

Ah Super Metroid, the best game ever made. Earthbound and FF2 were also great.

[That Darn Kat]

Wooh, I'm righting something that once went wrong... I just started playing Super Mario RPG for the first time!
Awesome! =3 That was the first RPG I played in my life, long before I knew what an RPG was. I can't believe I was missing out for so long!

[Kagger]

Aside from that mentioned before: Metal Warriors, and Terrainagama. Both are awesome in ways words can't begin to describe.

Metal Warriors is awesome. My brother used to rent that and Rise of the Robots at the same time.

The SNES was my childhood. Pilot Wings, Donkey Kong Country are both classics (in addition to the assumed Zelda, Metroid, SMW). Mega Man X is awesome, some fantastic music in it.

NHL 94 is one of the greatest sports games ever.

[Johan]

Gradius III. I absolutely LOVE Gradius III. It's awesome in emulation, since you can save at any point and reload when you inevitably die, which would have cost you all your powerups/upgrades (whatever they're called).

Final Fantasy VI (III on the DS, right? :confused: Or was it III on the SNES? I can never get that straight) was also a huge part of my younger days. I loved that game...big time.

[Kagger]

Gradius III. I absolutely LOVE Gradius III. It's awesome in emulation, since you can save at any point and reload when you inevitably die, which would have cost you all your powerups/upgrades (whatever they're called).

Final Fantasy VI (III on the DS, right? :confused: Or was it III on the SNES? I can never get that straight) was also a huge part of my younger days. I loved that game...big time.

VI was III on the SNES. III on the DS was real III. If you are thinking of the one with Kefka and Shadow, you are thinking of VI

[Johan]

VI was III on the SNES. III on the DS was real III. If you are thinking of the one with Kefka and Shadow, you are thinking of VI

That's right...so the GBA FF VI is actually the SNES III. Right? :) I hope so, or I'm a moron.

[Troggles]

You are not a moron, sir. GBA FFVI is SNES III. GBA/DS FFIV is SNES FFII.

[Widgetcraft]

Just remember... to get the actual numbering of the US SNES FF games, just take their US number, and multiply it by two. I can just remember it off hand, but most people seem to have a problem with that.

[Kielaran]

Wooh, I'm righting something that once went wrong... I just started playing Super Mario RPG for the first time!

Nice. If anyone likes RPGs, it is definitely one to play.

[Tayaya]

Late to the party on this thread, and I did indeed skip a page. Looks like most of the best bases were covered though... the mention of Metal Warriors was a big surprise... that game is awesome and boasted really great graphics and gameplay for its time.

I've been playing Earthbound again on and off in between other things, and am remembering just how charming and wonderful that title is.

Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a favorite of mine, alongside U.N. Squadron, the SNES "much easier than the arcade version" Gradius III, all of those good yet kinda crappy Super Star Wars games, Rock n' Roll Racing, Blackthorne, and Flashback if you can't play the Genesis one (which ran a lot faster).

[Kagger]

Just remember... to get the actual numbering of the US SNES FF games, just take their US number, and multiply it by two. I can just remember it off hand, but most people seem to have a problem with that.

That's awesome...never thought of it that way...but I didn't start playing Final Fantasy's until the rereleases.

I'm looking forward to going at Super Mario RPG. The Classic controller feels so much like a SNES that you really don't lose much by VCing it.

[Virtual Machine]

*Hugs his SHADOWRUN cart!*

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Shadowrun_box_art.jpg/250px-Shadowrun_box_art.jpg

[LongStepMantis]

Illusion of Gaia
Seiken Densetsu 3
Hamelin No Violin Hiki
Der Langrisser

And as if it needs mention: Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past

[J Arcane]

Nice. If anyone likes RPGs, it is definitely one to play.
If you REALLY liked RPGs you'd be playing Ultima: the False Prophet.

[Xerxes]

*Hugs his SHADOWRUN cart!*

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Shadowrun_box_art.jpg/250px-Shadowrun_box_art.jpg

Dude Shadowrun is a 360 game. What are you talking about.

[Lekon]

Demon's Crest is a must play game

I completely forgot about the joys of Demon's Crest. That was one of the later in life games of the system that blew my socks off. Seriously. I go barefoot to this day because of that game.

[Tayaya]

I completely forgot about the joys of Demon's Crest. That was one of the later in life games of the system that blew my socks off. Seriously. I go barefoot to this day because of that game.

I'm gonna have to check this one out.

[LongStepMantis]

I'm gonna have to check this one out.

It's worth it. It passed by without much notice, which is a damn shame. The game had that "Symphony of the Night" feel to it, with the various transformations and RPG-ish action gameplay. It also had one hell of an opening.

[flogging.joey]

Hey it's joey! Wow, 13 posts, that must be a record for you:p

stfu! the coast guard doesnt let me browse the intertubes on the boat...

[BLeeP]

Dude Shadowrun is a 360 game. What are you talking about.

Nah, it's a Genesis game.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/genesis/shadowrun.jpg

[Gorvi]

It's worth it. It passed by without much notice, which is a damn shame. The game had that "Symphony of the Night" feel to it, with the various transformations and RPG-ish action gameplay. It also had one hell of an opening.
It's also a sequel to the very awesome Gargoyle's Quest for the Game Boy and GQ2 for the NES. Both awesome games. I'd love to see another. :)

[TrackZero]

Seconding Yoshi's Island, UN Squadron, Megaman X and of course, Pilotwings.

[Craigtheplague]

You should check out Revolution X, Pit Fighter, Shaq Fu, and Bebe's Kids.

[Nogard]

Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF3, Final Fight 3, and Xardion!

[Shrinn]

I'm gonna second Lekon's terranigma love and add in the others in the series,

Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma. Amazing games.
Everything else I want to add was already mentioned....

Long live Demon's Crest!

[LongStepMantis]

Nah, it's a Genesis game.


I have to agree. The SNES version isn't terrible, but I found the Genesis version to be much more entertaining. Especially the way they handled cyberspace.
I used to spend hours just making random net runs to mine for data to sell. Those cyberdeck upgrades are pretty pricey. :D

It's also a sequel to the very awesome Gargoyle's Quest for the Game Boy and GQ2 for the NES. Both awesome games. I'd love to see another. :)

I don't think I ever saw the GB version. I'm also not that sure if I've played the NES one, even though i know I've heard of it. A new entry would be pretty sweet. Firebrand is awesome.

[rinichanraar]

I thought of this thread:

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1349.png

[Gorvi]

I don't think I ever saw the GB version. I'm also not that sure if I've played the NES one, even though i know I've heard of it. A new entry would be pretty sweet. Firebrand is awesome.
If you can still stomach older games, they're worth checking out. :)

[mister slim]

I had no idea Gargoyle's Quest had a sequel. I hope Demon's Crest shows up on the VC. Actually Gargoyle's Quest would be nice too, since I have no idea what happened to my copy.