Recommend a Snes Game To Try on Emulators

***wraggster*** · April 2nd, 2006, 20:22

Funny title i know, but with the PSP it brought a lot of newcomers to the world of emulation, a lot of people who probably had never heard of systems such as the Snes, so this is the first of many newsposts with a little history about the console and also a chance for our members to say which games they liked most and recommend them to todays audience, heres goes:

Before i start a massive thanks to Dark Watchers Console History for the Info and Screens (Best site on net for Console Info)

Super Famicom / SuperNES

Around 1988 Nintendo was still enjoying the success of it’s NES / Famicom system and didn’t see any need to jump on the 16-bit bandwagon. However the NEC PCengine / Turbografix in Japan, and the Sega Genesis in the US were beginning to dominate the videogame market. Nintendo's jump to 16-bit was no real surprise. Oddly enough Nintendo wanted the original Famicom to be 16-bit, but resources at the time were too expensive to make it happen, but now was the opportunity to take Nintendo to the next level.

The Super Famicom was released in November 1989, and immediately took over 80 percent of the Japanese market. They still had a lot of ground to cover to catch up with the other 16-bit systems. The console itself was quite impressive, and introduced scaling and rotation effects (the famous Mode 7) that could not be duplicated on the other systems.

Nintendo was still slow to release the system overseas. A shortage of supplies, and the fact that the NES was still making money in the US delayed the Super Famicom’s release. The system was finally released in the US on September 1st 1991, and called the SuperNES. The SuperNES was also released in Europe a year later in April 1992.

The SuperNES soon amassed a large library and battled toe to toe with Sega. Their popular character franchises and exclusive games kept them in a heated rivalry. Arcade games played a strong role in the competition. SuperNES got the jump on Sega by releasing the popular arcade title ‘Street Fighter 2’ with temporary exclusivity. Soon after they lost the edge when they chose to censor another popular arcade fighter ‘Mortal Kombat’, which Sega released unedited.

Much More History on This Page

Now onto Snes games to recommend, now i could list up to 100 killer games but ill keep my faves to just 10 games.

Here they are:

Mario Kart - Best 2 player racing game ever
Mario World - best 2d platformer ever
Pilotwings - Sweet flying Game
Zelda 3 - Fantastic RPG for all ages
Donkey Kong Country - The graphics for Snes were amazing
Streetfighter 2 - 2D fighting at its best
Uniracer - Bloody adictive racer
Starfox - Killer game with awesome 3D
Mario All Stars - Platform Gaming Heaven
Super Star Wars - A must for any Star Wars Fan

Thats my faves what games would you recommend ?

**pakkman781** · April 2nd, 2006, 20:36

I recommend all the ones you said above, plus these:

Super Metroid - Widely considered the best Metroid ever, and in some cases, the best game on the SNES, period.
Super Mario RPG - Absolutely awesome game. The best collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft ever conceived, and yet it was a rare, hard to find game in it's day, and has never been revived by Nintendo since (probably legal issues). An absolute essential in any SNES emulation collection.
Cannon Fodder - A little known but excellent game. Like SOCOM for the SNES.

**zx-81** · April 2nd, 2006, 20:37

I add two of my favorites games to your list :
Super Bomber Man : Funny and addictive arcade game
Arkanoid : the best version of the famous break-out game

**ukkevinl** · April 2nd, 2006, 20:44

f-zero: the original 'futuristic' racer!

**idapimp** · April 2nd, 2006, 20:45

final fantasy 3 - one of the best RPG's of all time
chronotrigger - sweet rpg
tales of phantasia - probably the best of the tales series

**chrisrulz555** · April 2nd, 2006, 21:06

Star Ocean - Best rpg ever IMO

**gelon** · April 2nd, 2006, 21:08

Super Mario World and Super Demo World The Legend Continues (A hard hack)

Final Fantasy IV and VI

Dual Orb 2

Final Fight 1, 2, 3

Much more

**danonano420** · April 2nd, 2006, 21:21

King of Dragons - beat em' up
Knights of the Round - beat em' up
Front mission - strategy (awesome game)
cannon fodder - strategy
kirby's dreamcourse - sorta of a golf game
gundam wing endless dual - fighting game
bomberman 1 & 2
sim city - hells yeah