He's been restored as one of Nintendo's most notable mascots ever since. The game adapted the popular Disney movie into a challenging side-scrolling platformer that, like the film, started off presenting our hero Simba as a young cub and concluded with him as a full-grown king-in-the-making. Donkey Kong was entirely reinvented in the process too, transforming from a girlfriend-napping arcade villain to a necktie-wearing headlining hero. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. On paper, Harvest Moon sounds like it would be no fun at all. Not nearly as awesome as Smash T.V. Play it on Switch to get the fascinating open-world experiment Bowser's Fury included. A robot fighting game which was heavily hyped and released on multiple consoles, claiming that enemies would learn and adapt to players' tactics, though it failed to live up to such lofty expectations. It's true before Toy Story ever put them on the map, the young film studio took offense to this game's use of computer-generated unicycles, sued the Big N and won. This game, though, had you taking to the air to defend our home capital of Washington, D.C. from invading South American drug runners and then take the fight to them in the titular jungles. - Port of the arcade game. It's hard to sum up this one when we've just talked about Breath of Fire II, too, because the games are similar in so many ways. The third old-school Blizzard title we're featuring from the company's pre-WoW era is Rock 'N Roll Racing, an isometric vehicular battler that had you cruising around wild tracks while blaring heavy metal music blasted out of whatever tinny speakers you had your old SNES hooked up to. You could grow bat wings or bird feathers. Mario Paint had a little something for everyone and its no surprise that fans have been clamoring for a sequel since its original release in 1992. The game was a top down shooter on the snes and it was kinda blocky sorta like mindcraft and seemed to take place in a desert. Man, Kirby is killing this countdown this is his fourth featured game after Kirby's Avalanche, Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby Super Star. Super Star Wars started that set of three, taking the characters, settings and soundtrack of the 1977 cinematic masterpiece and reinforcing them with a fresh injection of early '90s action. "XEVIOUS" is a shooter released by NAMCO in 1982.Players pilot the Solvalou and face off with the Xevious forces.Defeat airborne enemies with the zapper, and terrestrial enemies with the blaster.This game also features 26 character types with their own codenames.The "Arcade . As awesome as it was fighting Mike Tyson, the more surreal and exaggerated characters of Super Punch-Out!! The roster of playable characters grew to five different heroes here, as in addition to controlling Luke, Chewie, and Han, you also now got to step into the role of the rugged, bow-wielding Ewok Wicket and wear the gold bikini as slave-costumed Leia. That's mighty impressive. Holo Deck's Experience. And since Capcom was the company doing the development, the end result ended up feeling like these X-Men got loose in a Mega Man game, running, jumping and blasting their way through side-scrolling stages lorded over by some of the baddest villains from the show. It certainly won't be the last. Plus most fans picked up Super Bomberman 2 for the SNES instead. Who knows why, but Demon's Crest somehow managed to earn an interesting distinction among the entire SNES library it became the only Super Nintendo title in history to actual register negative sales at one point. The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse was seemingly yet another title starring the iconic cartoon character, but it mixed spectacular platforming with costume-based action to great effect. The game offered hardcore players of the day a great challenge, too, and completing it quickly became a badge of honor for SNES players. ReelDeadOne 4 days ago. For Nintendo players, though, it became a Kirby game as the happy pink puffball headlined the action. It was wild the combinations were endless, and each choice had an actual effect on how your animal played too. But hey, this is the first one! You could play as five of Marvel's most iconic mutants - Wolverine, Cyclops, Psylocke, Beast and Gambit. Operation Logic Bomb - Top-down. Thanks to its clever RPG gameplay that featured action commands and even some platforming, Super Mario RPG is one of those SNES titles that is often touted as one of Nintendo's all-time greatest games. Home to hockey gaming's most devastating one-timers, NHL '94 was the game that truly defined hockey adaptations in the 16-bit era. R-Type III: The Third Lightning adds the ability to charge your shot to extreme measures, which will . 4 R-Type III: The Third Lightning. Even as a single-player experience, though, the fast and frantic pace of skating and slap-shotting here felt utterly unrivaled. The first racing game to make the cut for our countdown, Kemco's Top Gear 2 represented a step up from what racing games had been in the previous generation but not too drastic a step. A prophetic alien bee named Buzz Buzz changes the course of the young boy's life, setting him on an adventure that those of us who have experienced it would never forget. We've crossed the threshold into the Top 50! The addition of wall jumping and dashing propelled X into a class of its own, allowing the player to interact with practically every square inch of the entire game. Not just cavemen, though. But it was, and CGI graphics burst onto the scene to redefine and redirect the entire industry. Only things here weren't quite the same as they were on the silver screen, since Hoth now had a 10-story-tall ice beast that tried to freeze you with arctic breath, Dagobah was lorded over by an enormous swamp thing and this version of Cloud City made you actually fight against the giant freezing chamber machine that encased Han Solo in carbonite. The game is a remake of the SNES classic which is one of the finest Western-themed games ever made. But few of us knew that term at the time for wide-eyed young boys and girls seeing it in action for the first time 20 years ago, it may as well have been magic. Upon its debut, the SNES managed to make the impossible somehow possible. You had Spring Breeze, a 16-bit remake of Kirby's Dream Land. Wario's Woods is an anomaly for plenty of . Nintendo's SimCity launched alongside the Super Nintendo in 1991, and it supported its core gameplay of city management and construction with a generous helping of Nintendo fanservice Bowser would rampage through your 'burg as a Godzilla-sized monster and a Mario statue was available as a unique city landmark. Genre: Shoot 'Em Up. (Though, sadly, this sequel did remove the ability to brawl with opposing players.). When a full row or column was completely, down the hatch they went they dashed off the playing field and straight into Yoshi's waiting mouth. He could morph himself into the fully-grown adult body of a knight named Freedan for extra fighting power, and also the alien-like lifeform Shadow late in the adventure. If you've played any of these games, you know how addicting and clever the dual panel-switching mechanic is. Contra III Alien Wars. Before remakes and upgrades were common, Nintendo pulled together some of Mario's grandest adventures, included the original Super Mario Bros. 2 from Japan (it's a long story, just go with it) and boosted the graphics to SNES standards. He first started on the path to those more modern success stories with one big 16-bit hit, though Populous. Regardless, Super Mario Kart quickly became one of the most addicting SNES experiences ever, long after all of the races had been won and the shortcuts had been discovered. It can be played with the regular controller or with a SNES Mouse for "more accurate" control. Of course, this one wasn't as much of a comic adaptation as it was an interactive version of the wildly popular early '90s X-Men cartoon show. SNES: Pop'n Twinbee is a top-down shooter. (And took the opportunity to promote it with a new Zelda-like logo.) Which is a good thing, because we're still playing it to this day. DuckTales, anyone? Few would argue with the assertion that Nintendo's Super Nintendo (SNES) system is one of the greatest platforms in the history of the industry. Killer bosses (like Chill Penguin and Sting Chameleon) give you ample motivation to perfect your skills. Though the company's known almost entirely for massively popular PC titles like World of Warcraft and Starcraft II today, Blizzard Entertainment was once one of the Super Nintendo's most intriguing third-party developers bringing us hits like The Lost Vikings, Rock 'N Roll Racing and this game, Blackthorne. Ganbare Goemon! Final Fantasy IV bore little resemblance to its predecessor on the NES. An incredibly striking journey every step of the way, and unlike anything else on the SNES. Street Fighter was truly the beginning of a huge boom for the fighting game genre, and a trailblazer for dozens of other franchises. Rousing rock tunes offset the frantic, fast-paced gameplay. A BreakOut style game where you control a spaceship equipped with a giant bouncing ball and must defeat Easter Island Giant Heads (Moai) at the border of the galaxy. Contra was the leading Co-Op franchise ever since its inception, and even today it's remembered as one of the most influential games in the history of gaming for the way it manages to make hard and unforgiving gameplay fun. This futuristic racer was hard and fast, with mind-bending Mode 7 graphics and an impressive variety of tracks to challenge even the most seasoned racing fan. Playing out like a gritty, futuristic version of the classic Prince of Persia designs, Blackthorne casts you as an alien commando raised among humans who must return to his homeworld and blast everyone in sight in order to reclaim his birthright and reign as king. One of the SNES' last releases before the Nintendo 64 stepped into the spotlight, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 effectively summed up the era that preceded it offering a definitive, jam-packed, nothing-held-back edition of one of the two franchises that most defined the early '90s fighting craze. This first-party puzzler is mostly known for the distinction of its NES edition, as it served as the last officially released game for that 8-bit system when it shipped to stores over 9 years after the NES first went on sale in America. The opera scene is one of the most memorable moments in Final Fantasy history. The new dynamic, while gross, actually added a lot to the experience and made us decide to give Earthworm Jim 2 a loftier position on the countdown than its predecessor. A Game Boy version was also released in Japan and Europe. Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout are a trio of time-traveling Norsemen who've gotten themselves into quite a puzzling predicament. Not in front of the kids. There are also plentiful characters and weapons to equip, making for a highly strategic, and highly satisfying, RPG experience. Platform(s): SNES Genre: Top Down Shooter Estimated year of release: Probably early 90s Graphics/art style: classic 16Bit game, not really impressive graphics for the time. Axelay was a visual stunner on the SNES. By the time Ultimate MK3 came around, though, the Big N let the carnage unfold unchecked. A selection of courses set around the world, a vehicle upgrade system and new weather effects kept Top Gear making progress toward what more traditional racing titles would eventually offer in the future, but in the end the SNES was more defined by its all-new takes on racing (like F-Zero's futuristic hovercrafts and Super Mario Kart's item-shooting go-karts). In the generation that preceded those, though, they were cutting their teeth on Turrican. Level 10. 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