To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the SNES, we've assembled our picks for the Top 100 SNES games of all time. Our criteria were simple – quality upon release, originality, replayability and impact upon the industry. After fighting with each other over a span of weeks and many, many hours, we managed to dig through our childhood memories – and modern Virtual Console experiences – to arrange our ranking. No doubt you'll have some disagreements. That's why we have comments.
Keep it cool, Koopalings.
Richard George
Executive Editor, IGN Nintendo
After a year and a half of work, Mario Party 4 is the first GameCube game to be decompiled, hinting at a fully working PC port in the future.
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
Uncovered details reveal cancelled Ultimate Spider-Man 2 would have featured playable Green Goblin, snowy NYC, and storylines with Doctor Doom and Daredevil.
a link to the past may just be the best 2d game ever the game is so rich so endorsing and best of all so so fun
yey for Super metroid! :)
Link to the past for the win! Seriously those are some heavy frickin hitters right there..I think i'll bust out my old Snes and play Super Metroid today!
A Link To the Past, even now, is beautiful and fun to play. It deserved its place.
I think FF 2/4 should have been higher than #14.