21 Best Super Nintendo Games (SNES) 

There is still hope for the people, Earthbound is available on the the New 3ds and Wii U. You can even buy Earthbound beginnings on the Wii U. People really must love Earthbound. Great video you should do a top 21 part 2.

Buy a snes mini bro!!!

Hopefully one day this comment will be outdated.

i got chrono trigger on my snes mini along with tmnt and a few other games added for somewhere between 50 - 60 games total

Honestly fighting games were very popular at the time, I can't even think of the Super Nintendo without thinking of Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, and Killer Instinct, those games were basically Grand Theft Auto and Call Of Duty at the time, everyone was playing them, and everyone loved them. It is also a sin that Mario Kart was chosen over F-Zero, F-Zero is absolutely essential, even more than Earthbound, no one cared about Earthbound at the time, stuff like ActRaiser, and even Gradius III with its slowdowns, are much more important than Earthbound, heck NBA Jam T.E. and International Superstar Soccer are more important than Earthbound. I also would avoid All-Stars entirely, the originals are much better games than those remakes, I would rather see something like R-Type III, U.N. Squadron, Axelay, or Space Megaforce instead. Of course you need your Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Street Fighter II, A Link To the Past, Mega Man X, Kirby Super Star, Contra III, Yoshi's Island, Super Castlevania IV, and Donkey Kong Country, that goes without saying. Then for RPGs definitely Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI/III, Secret Of Mana, Illusion Of Gaia, the Breath Of Fire games, and Legend Of The Seven Stars, all massively popular because they were good. The Super Nintendo had a lot of good games in general like the Final Fight games, Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts, Tetris Attack, Hagane, Run Saber, Skyblazer, Imperium, Aero Fighters, HyperZone, Prince Of Percia, Sunset Riders, Sparkster, Ninja Warriors, Wild Guns, Harvest Moon, etc., it is hard to make a solid list. Many of the licensed games were fun as well, and there was a lot of those, Animaniacs, Aladdin, X-Men, The Avengers, Batman, Power Rangers, Alien, Predator, Looney Toons, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, RoboCop, The Terminator, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, but yeah, Turtles In Time would be the one to choose there. Then there is the middle ground stuff too like Battletoads & Double Dragon, the rushing beat series, Total Carnage, Smash TV, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Ghoul Patrol, Big Sky Trooper, Cybernator, Demon's Crest, Captain Commando, Knights Of The Round, The King Of Dragons, Magic Sword, Metal Warriors, etc..

Same. Isn't it great that we'll be forty year old millennials?

'91 here and same.

Was born on 2000 and the SNES is still my all time fav console

@@Wolfdagger-pe4xu Have you come across SNES drunk's channel? I believe you might enjoy. Tons of SNES material including Japanese and European region stuff.

‘79 for me and agree 100%. Started collecting and it’s the most satisfying thing owning these carts all these years later.

Same! Ran to my Switch to check... That hurt.

Yup. Stopped the video immediately to find out. *sigh* back to playing the video

Me too

me too :(

I dropped everything to check :(

I agree. All games in this list are beyond classics, but Super Metroid is just in a league of its own because of the game itself, what it means to the speed running community, and of course the ROM hacks.

Indeed, it's a great game. Even today it's absolute worth to play and better than the majority of all the "modern" games imo!

💯 but I still love the gamecube more, what can I say.

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 with the gameboy player takes the gamecube to another level !

@@jamess9260 ha remember many a time playing advance wars on that and all of a sudden it's 3am!

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 Your Advance wars fan, sad that series ended, it was just as great as Fire Emblem, I still have my First copy of Advance Wars from 2001. Nintendo is sleeping on a great series. They need to revive it, like Capcom did Mega Man 11 !

@@jamess9260 yeah 💯 the trouble was they tried to take it in a more realistic/ post apocalyptic direction, which sucked big time, should have kept the cartoony style.

deep and broad library? it's like 90 percent RPGs and Platformers.

@@Jolly-Green-Steve it's the snes, what did you expect?

Only 50-60? Not 100?

thanks I was lookin for this comment

Ty

If you are American, try Terranigma. You'll need an emulator though.

Did you use google to 100% Chrono Trigger? If not, play it again, guaranteed you missed a few secrets.

Magical quest 3 best

Aladdin and lion king was my shit.

Beauty and the beast was the worst game ever 😂😂😂

@@jaybundlez200 It probably was, but it seemed like 10/10 to my 5-year-old brain. I stand by

@@manassehdawkins4826 Same. I loved those games.

Probably because the og Starfox has aged HORRIBLY.

Same :(

@@paulmoore5392 actually that’s a great point, but lylatwars has aged much better especially gameplay wise so play that instead

@@paulmoore5392 I still thoroughly enjoyed it despite growing up with the 64 version. The art style and gameplay is different enough from 64 for me that I still enjoyed my time with it finally playing it as an adult.

I couldn’t be bothered to play Star Fox even back in the 90’s. It just wasn’t that great.

Dude i'm in the same boat tho, i asked my Godmother that used to live in NY (i live in Panama btw) if she could mail me a NES, when i went to the mailbox like 2 weeks later she sent me a dam SNES i was like wtf is this, almost nobody had it on my country by that time lol, came with Super mario World, dude i played that game so much that i know almost every secret in it hahaha

better than super Mario world

The shooting mechanic too was pretty innovative

@@johnschleich8462 way better

@@johnschleich8462 Nintendo life said super Mario world is only better for him because he grew up with it

Way too easy though, takes a couple of hours to beat 😢

He means any game for the consul not just games that are on the online service

Yeah I didn’t think so either, but I had to do a quadruple check to confirm I wasn’t going mad.

@@Ashe_Forester at 9:40 he talks specifically about earthbound

@@RosbifChaud He means it’s on the Japanese Pham come version he probably has a Nintendo switch Japan online

@@Ashe_Forester no, I just checked both the SNES and Super Famicom apps and neither have Mother 2/Earthbound. So yeah, the video's info is wrong.

Super punch out is not bad too. Ill just tried it out on NSO

I still think SNES is Nintendo's best system they've created to date. Amazing library on cutting edge hardware during its time. Nintendo was an absolute powerhouse during the 90's.

@@ProphitDesigns genesis and snes are both awesome in their own right

@@Tweaked818 Genesis started as great but SNES killed Genesis eventually though. It wasn’t even funny at the end anymore. The 32x couldn’t save it, but SNES was still strong. The mega cd couldn’t save and the SNES was still popular at that point. SNES ruled...

Zero The Kamikaze Squirrel, The Lost Vikings 1 and 2, and Rock N Roll Racing. Just some of my personal favorites.

Check out Smooth Mcgroove on RU-vid! His covers to some Megan Man X songs are really good!

100%

X4 is my favorite soundtrack

omg so true i always try for 10 minutes when i play it now 😄

Super Ghouls and Ghosts is legendary, the Dark Souls of its time. It’s frustrating but addicting. It doesn’t get mentioned enough.

💯 that's a great game but I think it came out on the megadrive as well?

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 You're right. It did. But I associate it with the SNES. I guess he's talking about exclusives.

ZAMN is a top 5 SNES game for me, easily. More people need to play it

@@TheUnknownsShow it was brilliant but I suspect the difficulty put a lot of people off

Zombies, Terranigma and DKC 2 are both my Top 3 games on SNES, of all time and could all be easily number 1s

Too true...

Amen

Super Metroid shocks me with its atmosphere. It is definitely my favorite SNES game despite me having grown up with Super Mario World, DK Country, and A Link To The Past instead.

The best game ever made if you ask me.

@Matuscara ت Super Metroid

Also on New 3ds and Wii U

Give it time ... and maybe some hate mail to Nintendo 🤷🏾‍♂️

Just emulated it on an emulator its that easy🤦🏾‍♂️

mini snes: am i a joke to you?

me too. I can still finish it a 100% without aid and enjoy the hell out of it. probably my favourite game ever besides Chrono Trigger

Who could forget playing A Link Between Worlds back in the 90's, amirite?

That was my favorite game as wel and hard as hell. I couldn’t get past the water level in the dark work and it wasn’t until much later that I went back and finally beat it. I was so close to the end!

@@frightenedsoul Water Levels always give my anxiety in Zelda games.

Link to the Past and Wind Waker are my favorite Zelda games of all time

yes!!

Great titles!

Why don't they stand up today? There's far more enjoyment to be had in retro games in my opinion. Much of today's games rely on photo-realistic, movie-esque visuals and audio, and obsession with online play and features, rather than what made games so good in the first place i.e. the gameplay. Do you reckon today's titles will still have the same nostalgic appreciation and love in thirty years that classic NES, MS, SNES, Mega Drive, Saturn and N64 ones do? Methinks not.

@@Nightopian1982 you’re completely right. It’s just sometimes your memory of a game, and experiencing it as a child is often better than the reality of playing it again when you’re older.

@@Nightopian1982 exactly my opinion. It's not only nostalgic reasons, the "older games" are simply the better ones! Original ideas, original concepts etc. I rather have a simple, funny game than a super fancy 3D game. If I want to watch a movie, I watch a movie!

Nothing has came anywhere close since.

It's that Nintendo Orchestra music and mode 7

@Tom Ffrench not remotely close

What the fuck is that

@@ZenDonn wow way to just be absolutely rude to someone because you dont know about a thing they like

You only had to wait a year to get your wish! All TMNT games together on modern systems!

Oh, that's awesome. I'm not sure I ever beat it as a kid either. My mom did though...I think I was about 33-34

Agreed

*dived

@@eddsnake no

@@eddsnake the past tense of dive is dove....

@@mattflub In USA maybe, here in the UK and the rest of the world it’s dived.

Why

Probably because it has cutscenes

@@adrenalinex4 because it’s a very good “portable” make of the game. I know it’s also on droid/iOS but the DS made good use of the second screen as I recall.

​@@sebastianhurst958 The Android/IOS/PC versions have graphical "improvements" that actually look worse than the original graphics, whereas the DS version graphics are as faithful to the SNES original as possible. The Android version also AFAIK has a nasty DRM that requires you to be online to play it. Which is the reason I stopped purchasing anything made by Square for mobile devices; I got hit with it on one of the Final Fantasy remakes, which prevented me from playing the game I legally purchased in the places I expected (where I didn't have mobile Internet), so I gave up on anything mobile made by Square. The one I currently play, though, is the PC version. It has improved, and there are mods to restore most of the changed graphics. It also has all the extras of the DS version.

Playing the PC version and lovin' it. Except for those button prompts. Those are a b*tch.

Chrono Trigger is better.

Hard agree with Tales of Phantasia!

I honestly really wasn’t a fan of it. The battle system was weird and not particularly fun and the story was kinda crap as well.

*bows*

I think I did that with a game genie 😂😂

@@stevenking4617 i also beaten that game without getting any deaths.

Bottles and faeries

Demons Crest has a killer soundtrack

Firepower 2000 👍👍

@@twincherries6698 Definitely! Best Nintendo console ever imo.

I thought Shinobi was the best, till I played Hagane

Actraiser!! :D

Well, switch has Breath of the wild. Only future will tell if there comes a better game, but it would still be one of the best games on the switch. ... What do you mean it is not a pack-inn game? Everybody who bought a switch at launch got it, that makes it a pack-inn!

@@Tyrisalthan Breath of the Wild is a launch game. Super Mario World was literally packed in with the SNES similar to how Wii Sports was bundled with the Wii.

There's no such thing as the "objectively best game". I love SMW, but I would personally rank several games ahead of it.

@@felixronkainen8880 There is an almost universal agreement that SMW is one of the best SNES games. Is it going to apply for everyone, no, but the majority agree it is one of the best. So, it can objectively be the best SNES game. I'm not saying it is, but you cannot deny it being up there as one of the greats.

@@MilkWasABadChoice17 Sure, but something can only be objectively true if it's a literal fact. Even if many people have a common opinion on something, it's still an opinion, not a fact. Therefore it cannot be objective. I don't mean to be a contrarion or anything; I love SMW. It's just a big pet peeve of mine when that word gets misused.

I never even heatd of the SNES mini, until now. Why spend money on games if you can just get an emulator and dl the ROMs

@@sonhadorpr Because the SNES Mini is legal and emulator isn't. The mini was great value at retail price. And you get a tiny cute version of the original console as an extra perk. :)

he got it wrong

Was about to check then realize its NSO

New 3ds and Wii U

True. Games were ridiculously expensive. In the UK SF2 Turbo cost about £65 at launch.

That would be amazing!

Can include Actraiser and Actraiser 2 please!

Terranigma for the win!

They stated their goal is all their games on modern consoles.

And... Terranigma

@Lavos whadia mean they sample music from out of real songs?

I get the feeling that Square will release CT separately as part of a Chrono collection alongside Cross like what they did with the Mana collection.

Same coming from a 2010’s gamer and been gaming for 7 years

SNES is what a perfect console looks like

One of....😐

@@gjergjaurelius9798 One of the best consoles. Best is subjective, and it's not the best console ever made.

I had a lot of fun on the SNES, but I think I had equally much time of fun with the og Playstation. God I loved the games there. Still, the SNES is an amazing console.

I'd have replaced SF Turbo for it, mostly because of overlap. I still feel it's the best racer on the SNES.

never cared for that game even when it came out

@@ChescoYT Neither did I, then I played it. It is still a great game. Better than SNES Mario Kart by a large margin.

F-Zero is the best racing game on the system.

@@mathewsoltan8487 if only it had multiplayer...but even so I still consider it a true racing game when compared to Mario Kart at least.

It really is an amazing game.

Agree. That game was so good but advertised poorly.

Amen brother, I play it at least once a year, it's definitely in my top 10 SNES games.

Thanks

Thank you

Except the new ones

i am currently emulating it

@@cosmo_4785 fantastic! I hope you’re enjoying the story

@@jamus9_games967 i am really enjoying i just completed the second tower

Seriously! Even TMNT beat it....

Maybe High Difficulty Biased. Super Contra 3 was damn Good for about 3 levels... Then it's unplayable

That's his opinion, I brought Castlenania 4 back in the day. That and Super Double Dragon, played in the 90s all the time.

I agree. My 2nd favorite SNES game behind SMW.

@@mhans311 what about Super Metroid? Chrono Trigger? Mario RPG? Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2, ActRaiser, Mario All Stars?

Yup!!! I definitely still play it right now

The skull head boss in difficult? I ALWAYS got killed

Yeah it's a masterpiece. I can only make it to the 2nd last level on HARD mode. That 2nd top down view level boss is so difficult that he always kilks me

If you got a ps3 or Ps Vita, it might be still available at the psn store, I got it on my psp go.

Remember when it first came out. Got it for Christmas

Yes of course Drakkhen1&2

@@twincherries6698 Glad to hear it, what is it that you love about it? You should message me on Instagram if you want, I'm called YoshiDude1991.