Posted by bedroomcoder on Jul 21, 2010 18:20 (49 days ago)
10 Earthbound
A brilliant little JRPG. It sends up the RPG genre and is utterly riddled with pop-culture references as well as being a well designed and thoroughly absorbing adventure in its own right.
9 Contra III
Stupidly censored and renamed as Super Probotector in the UK and Europe (thanks German politicians), the censoring doesn't affect the fantastic and utterly hectic run-and-gun action. you really can't do better than this on the SNES for just going ape-crazy and blowing stuff up.
Sorry. It's actually quite hard to express how much of a rush this game is in action. Great high-speed racing action, this game is much better than Mario Kart, lacking the latter's stupid random deaths and unbalanced powerups. If you mess up in this game, it's YOUR fault buster. The best racer on the SNES, undoubted.
7 Mega Man X
An excellent addition to the hard-as-nails Megaman series, this game has everything you'd want from a game with the name 'Megaman' on the front. Superb visuals, pumping music, great bosses and utterly insane difficulty are all present and correct. If you haven't at least given this a go, you have no right to call yourself a hardcore gamer.
6 Starfox
At a time when the PlayStation was stomping onto the scene with its polygons, a dark time when gamers became temporarily obsessed with polygon count over gameplay (the only possible reason atrocities like Battle Arena Toshinden and Kileak the Blood were ever released), along came Argonaut with Stafox to show that the SNES could do polygons too. Not only that, but it allied that technology with top-notch digfighting gameplay.
It is a complete mystery to me what people see in Castlevania (in at no. 4 here) games. I have tried a few and they just seem like a 4 direction version of Green Beret to me. They don't look bad, they just don't look like anything special.
I would have included Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart, Yoshi's Island, and Street Fighter 2 in this list but the top 3 games chosen are pretty much indisputable.
Jul 26, 2010 16:05:19 (
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