Good SNES Games: Recommendations?

Scráib

Howdy all,

The other day myself and my brother dug out the SNES from the attic after I rememebred it was up there. Sadly the games are all missing, probably given away years ago! So I'll have to go on the hunt for new ones, I've a list I want to get:

Mario All Stars
Donkey Kong Country
Mario Kart
Street Fighter II
Super Mario World
(And Maybe) Zelda

Any other suggestions for some classic Snes games!?

CCCP^

Roysh, where to start?! Here's three games you might want to look into:

Batman Returns - Beat 'em up
Super Aleste - Shoot 'em up
Zombies Ate My Neighbours - hard to quanitfy, excellent game nonetheless, rescue hapless neighbours from B-movie horrors!

tman

Super Metroid

The single best reason for owning a SNES imo

cynos

super soccer
super tennis
ghouls and ghosts
f zero
starfox

Ridley

CCCP^ wrote: »

Zombies Ate My Neighbours - hard to quanitfy, excellent game nonetheless, rescue hapless neighbours from B-movie horrors!

THIS.

Donkey Kong Country 2
Yoshi's Island
Joe & Mac
Chrono Trigger
EarthBound
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Illusion of Time/Gaia
Terranigma
Breath of Fire I/II
Earthworm Jim 1/2

And I remember True Lies and Aladdin being fun to play although I doubt they hold up. :pac:

Oh and Total Carnage

Retr0gamer

Actually Aladdin holds up really well.

Just like to add without going into japanese imports:

Lufia 2
Final Fantasy 6/3
Cybernator
Contra 3
Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse
Metal Warriors

budgemook

ah you'd finish Aladdin in a day.

International Superstar Soccer
Rock N Roll Racing
Earthworm Jim
Starfox (although it wasn't called that in Ireland - What was it?)
F-Zero
Super Mario World (better than all stars)
Yoshi's Island
Super Mariokart IMO is still the best game ever made. Battle mode track 4. Matches used to go for nearly an hour. I was clinical with green shell or banana
Mortal Kombat
Bomberman

CCCP^

budgemook wrote: »

ah you'd finish Aladdin in a day.
Starfox (although it wasn't called that in Ireland - What was it?)

Lylat Wars.

Retr0gamer

CCCP^ wrote: »

Lylat Wars.

Nope. Starwing. Lylat Wars was starfox 64.

CCCP^

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nope. Starwing. Lylat Wars was starfox 64.

Fail me.

budgemook

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nope. Starwing. Lylat Wars was starfox 64.

That's it

valleyoftheunos

Super Mario World
Pilotwings
Zelda

norrie rugger

Scráib wrote: »

Howdy all,

The other day myself and my brother dug out the SNES from the attic after I rememebred it was up there. Sadly the games are all missing, probably given away years ago! So I'll have to go on the hunt for new ones, I've a list I want to get:

Mario All Stars
Donkey Kong Country
Mario Kart
Street Fighter II
Super Mario World
(And Maybe) Zelda

Any other suggestions for some classic Snes games!?

Donkey Kong Country really has not held up
(honestly I never rated it, always thought that it had very a watery look to it)

o1s1n

After a recent horrific experience with Super Metroid, I feel compelled to warn you...remember to change the batteries in any carts you're going to play with a save feature (Especially any RPGs) . Even if there's some life left in them.

Nothing worse than being all fired up to get stuck back into a game only to find all your saves have vanished.

Retr0gamer

norrie rugger wrote: »

Donkey Kong Country really has not held up
(honestly I never rated it, always thought that it had very a watery look to it)

Some one else agrees!

Victor McDade

Smash tennis
Killer Instinct

Jesus, looking through the list so far there were some fantastic games on that machine, at a time when it seemed everyone (at least where I grew up) had a Megadrive. Why?!??

Retr0gamer

Because during the 8-bit era Sega treated Europe with respect unlike nintendo so made a bigger impact. Come the 16-bit era they came out with a fantastic console and sold like hot cakes while the snes took it's sweet time coming to europe.

o1s1n

Not to mention Megadrives were cheaper.

When I got mine for Christmas 92, it cost £129 as far as I can remember. The Super Nintendo was £150

Scráib

There's a few good ideas in there so far!

The most disturbing thing I've found is that the batteries on the SNES games will expire resulting in a loss of save games? That could get annoying & complicated to fix, even with the guides I've found online.

o1s1n

It's easy enough actually.

Open the cart. (You'll need a special screw bit..can make one yourself though)

take the old battery out. (did this before with a knife, dont necessarily need to desolder it..depends how much solder is holding it in place)

Put a new battery in. (I did this with masking tape before on a Zelda cart a few years ago..checked yesterday and it still works. So it seems like an option other than soldering a new one in if you're not sure about how to do that. Easy to change in future too )

Sofiztikated

Always loved
Battle toads
Spiderman vs Venom
Mariokart

Still was a MegaDrive fanboi.

irlande_euroluv

My favourite was :

SUPER PROBOTECTORS.

Quint

Ah, the memories!
Rock N Roll racing was great,
Super Tennis
Mario Kart
Sensible Soccer
Jurassic Park
Desert Strike

Never like platform games. Sensible Soccer was never as good as the Amiga Version (they still have never matched that, they always try to make it 3d or something) but tme memories of being ablt to turn on the console and have a game started in 5 seconds!

CCCP^

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Some one else agrees!

GET BACK IN THE CORNER ARGH! *Throws Coffee Mug*

Ridley

norrie rugger wrote: »

Donkey Kong Country really has not held up
(honestly I never rated it, always thought that it had very a watery look to it)

I'm biased toward it but DKC2 holds up much better to age since it has a quicker pace, and is more varied. Even if K Rool's Keep is a nightmarish hell.

juanjo

street fighter 2
mortal kombat 3
kirby's dream course (minigolf with a twist)
supermetroid
illusion of gaia

corcaigh07

CCCP^ wrote: »

Roysh, where to start?! Here's three games you might want to look into:

Batman Returns - Beat 'em up
Super Aleste - Shoot 'em up
Zombies Ate My Neighbours - hard to quanitfy, excellent game nonetheless, rescue hapless neighbours from B-movie horrors!

great game, i bloody loved it on the megadrive.

norrie rugger

CCCP^ wrote: »

GET BACK IN THE CORNER ARGH! *Throws Coffee Mug*

I seem to have started something

calex71

My top 2

Zombies at my neighbours
Shadowrun - one of my all time favorites on any system

batari

Didn't see it mentioned, but if ya love mario kart and want a new, not quite the same, but the best you're gonna get sequel, grab a copy of Street Racer. Effin class :pac:

TygerKrash

calex71 wrote: »

My top 2

Zombies at my neighbours
Shadowrun - one of my all time favorites on any system

Shadowrun was deadly.. the music was great in that too..

couple of others I played a lot on the snes

- Another World ( out of this world in the US)
- Super Bomberman
- The star wars games were pretty good particularly empire strikes back

Retr0gamer

Another World is **** on the SNES. They censored loads of it.

budgemook

atariman wrote: »

Didn't see it mentioned, but if ya love mario kart and want a new, not quite the same, but the best you're gonna get sequel, grab a copy of Street Racer. Effin class :pac:

Hmmm. Is it really similar? The closest game i'm found since is Crash Team Racing on the PSOne. What console is Street Racer on?

I didn't like any of the Mariokart sequels, only the original. Do you really think Street Racer is the next best thing?

I still play Mariokart on an emulator but it's hard to get a game of 2 player going. I assume street racer is online?

budgemook

Oh it's PSOne. Bah! I'll justs tick to Mariokart or Crash team racing (which is available for PS3 in the playstation store)

Retr0gamer

Street Racer is on the SNES. It's also not that good.

budgemook

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Street Racer is on the SNES. It's also not that good.

Wait, is it the one with sumo wrestler and all and you kick out at each other and can fall off the inside of the track?

Retr0gamer

Thats the one.

Dark Savior

Street Racer is dire on the Snes.Unirally is a cool racer if you want to play something a little different.

budgemook

Yeah was never a fan of Street Racer so. Mariokart all the way on the SNES, CTR on the PSONE although I could never beat that fecker in the flying saucer. Finished the game 107% IIRC but don't remember beating him.

TygerKrash

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Another World is **** on the SNES. They censored loads of it.

Really? didn't know that. It is significantly different to pc version?

o1s1n

If you're into playing it on a console, then go with the Megadrive version. As far as I know the whole last level where you crash into the baths has been heavily edited/removed from the snes version.

batari

Woah woah, not saying Street Racer was a classic, just saying it was the next best thing to Mario Kart on the snes

batari

I'm the first to admit I'm not the best at explaining myself; I'll put it like this:

Say you've been playing Mario Kart on your Snes for ten hours straight, have finished every level and still fancy some game that's pretty much the same - Street Racer

The same type mode 7 type graphics as Mario Kart but not as good quality but sure the closest game I've seen on the Snes. If there is something closer to Mario Kart I would genuinely love to know people!! Can't say I've played every Snes game out there...

Something I remembered about Street Racer on the SNES was that you always started the next race at the opposite end of the pack (so if you won the race you would start the next one in last place). In Mario Kart you start the next race in the same position that you finished the last one.

redshoulder

Shadowrun
Megaman X
Contra 3

komodosp

Mortal Kombat

Naah don't bother... without the blood it's nothing... Doesn't even deserve the K in Kombat

Retr0gamer

Mortal Kombat was pants, blood or not.