SNES games of yore

[Gypsy]

I used to play Sparkster for hours on end. And I'd rather not even think about how many hours my brothers and I put into Mario Kart. That was pre-rpg for me, though.

[shooraijin]

Along with Mario Kart, I always liked the Super Mario All-Stars collection, and now with emulation, I can enjoy all those Ranma SNES games I never got to play. (The Ranma RPG is fun!)

I'll need to get a real machine to play StarFox, though. It doesn't seem to work right on SNES9X Mac. (Must ... not ... go to GameStop ... again ... must ... resist ... buying ... another ... console ...)

[ShiroiHikari]

Mario Kart! And Starfox...^_^ Ooh! Street Fighter II (I can't tell you how many times I've beaten that game..)! Mega Man 7, X, and X3; Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG; Super Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi, uhh...there were more but I can't remember any of them-- no wait! Mario Paint! ^____^ ::floats away on a nostalgia cloud::

I gots a working SNES and NES :] I am happy.

[Gremio]

OH i loved Mario Kart, I dunno why but id always play as Yoshi, man that was so fun ^^;;;
I also loved Street Fighter II which of cource got me started on something of a hobby of collecting all the SF games. I spent hours trying to fight and win with all the characters.
I always loved Mario 3 on Super Mario allstars too, major nostalgia factor for me if I play it now *dances to the first level dancing hills*. And then there was Chrono Trigger, I spent FAR too long at that one, even cried at the end of it too.

Anyone ever played Gundam Wing Endless Duel? I think its great (thanks to emulation)

I think Il go dust off the snes in the atic for a play now actually ^_^

[ShiroiHikari]

Endless Duel was fun :]

[Razgriz]

Super Metroid...great game.

[Shinja]

hmm the best

mario rpg
starfox
earthbound
earthworm jim
and mario cart

note thses are not in any given order, whichever one i happen to be addicted to is my fav

[Lightbringer]

Supermetriod, Chrono Trigger(my first rpg and still the best imo), couple Final fantasy games. True Lies (little bloody but was a pretty decent game) All sorts of Street fighter games, Ken, and Cammy they rocked. um....... oh yeah I remember hours of life wasted on mario kart with my cousin Jay. And Gremio, the reason why you used yoshi, is cause only cool people use yoshi. so you get a point.

Lightbringer // Aaron

[Heaven's Cloud]

I usually played Final Fantasy: Master Quest, and Metroid Prime. Those were my two favorite SNES games.

[inkhana]

Oh my gosh, I'm gettin that nostalgic feeling! So many of the games you guys mentioned are great. Super Mario World (my first real game ever and perhaps the greatest Mario ever made if you don't include Mario RPG)...How about LOZ: Link to the Past? I spent months playing those games back before I could beat games a lot more quickly...LOL^^ And StarFox! Man, the hours Mom and I sank into playing that and Mario Kart. (Mom was Toad, I was Koopa) Super Metroid! Ooh, and Chrono Trigger. (However, there's not much nostalgia factor there because I really haven't had my copy that long...but love it anyway...!) What else is there? Earthbound...crazy kooky game...but I love it. I used to really like the Donkey Kong series too. Did I miss anything? Hmm...LOL Oh, and Mario All Stars...that too...

[inkhana]

Supermetriod, Chrono Trigger(my first rpg and still the best imo), couple Final fantasy games. True Lies (little bloody but was a pretty decent game) All sorts of Street fighter games, Ken, and Cammy they rocked. um....... oh yeah I remember hours of life wasted on mario kart with my cousin Jay. And Gremio, the reason why you used yoshi, is cause only cool people use yoshi. so you get a point.

Lightbringer // Aaron

It seemed to me that Yoshi was difficult to play because he was so slippery, but that was what made him fun..^^ *Yoshi spins out with tongue flying in all directions* Yoshi was cool...

[madphilb]

I'm ashamed of every single one of you.....

all those games, and not a single mention of Zelda in the lot (that I saw).

5 minutes in the corner for each of you. :p

PHIL

[Lightbringer]

Zelda on the snes was good. and had some pretty inovative graphics if i remember correctly. And though it was good, i played it to death. so. it has fallen from my list . sorry

Lightbringer // Aaron

[inkhana]

I'm ashamed of every single one of you.....

all those games, and not a single mention of Zelda in the lot (that I saw).

5 minutes in the corner for each of you. :p

PHIL

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[inkhana]

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[Spencer]

I usually played Final Fantasy: Master Quest, and Metroid Prime. Those were my two favorite SNES games.

Do you mean Super Metroid?

>_>

Anyway, my favorites were Super Mario RPG (duh), Earthbound (super duh), Chrono Trigger, Harvest Moon, Mario All-Stars (I totally 0wn3d Mario 3), Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Super Street Fighter 2 (i 0wn3d any competitor with Dhalsim or Blanka), Mega Man X (duh! Chill Penguin was so awesome), Rockman & Forte (Japanese game, I think they made a GBA port for it)...

Think that's about it.

[Saint]

SNES!!!
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Super Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2, Zelda, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid, Mario Paint , Zombies Ate My Neighbors and i guess the first Super Mario World... i really loved lots of games but i played these the most i think.
I remember taking the time on Mario Paint to make stamps of the Secret of Mana characters. They looked just like them, each had a stamp for the head and body. i had too much time.

[Bobtheduck]

Ahh... The SNES... I got Super Mario World and D-Force with a brand new super NES for Christmas one year... It was, like, the best Christmas ever! And I subscribed to Nintendo Power allready, so I had plenty to drewl over. Super Gameboy, mostly... Yeah, I used the AWESOME PROCESSING POWER of 16 Bits to play gameboy games in color and on a big screen! My Actual Super Nintendo playing days got supercharged when I got "SUPER METROID!!" though the real title didn't have exclamation points...

Anyhow, I spent a lot of time renting games, and Nintendo Power reviewed a game called "Secret of Mana" and I thought is looked stupid (I believe my exact words were "Why would anyone want to play a game where you have to move around with (whatever I said for menus)?" because I thought it was all menu based. And, boy was i surprised at how KICK BUTT this game was! I rented it like every rental privelidge my parents gave me. And then came Secret of Evermore... I actually liked it when it was out, because it was like mana but it had that psycho dog and you could like throw spears. Well, I'm not sure which came first, evermore or earthbound, but I would go to cerritos for... doctor visits, and well I saw a game store and begged my dad to take me there. That's where I saw it. A huge box with this silver guy with spikes on his shoulders. And the title: Earthbound. It called to me with it's enormous boxy goodness and my Dad broke down and bought it for me... 80 bucks for that game. Wow... It was around the time the PS1 came out, I was in blockbuster and they showed a preview for "Final Fantasy 3" for super nintendo which was actually quite old, but they labeled it "Final Fantasy VI", which is of course the real title, and it was a shot of someone riding a chocobo, and I'm totally anti sony or any non-nintendo system at that time, and I'm like "Well, that's stupid... It's a shooting game" (that's what it looked like to me, don't look at me like that!) and so, well, I never bought it... Plus my friend was on a kick that the Final Fantasy games were all Dungeons and Dragons (even though both of us ended up actually playing dungeons and dragons later...) I did play Chrono Trigger, though, which became one of my all time faves... I mean, it was stinking great. Basically, my SNES was consecrated for RPG use only by that point.

Later, while I was still on my anti-sony kick, some friends got a playstation and their fist game... Care to guess what it was? Yeah, you guessed it. Pa rappa the ra... er, I mean Final Fantasy 7. Well, that got me thoroughly interested, so I decided to rent FF3 (AKA 6) and played it. It was a new experience to me, why with it's random battles and a story much more complex and longer than Chrono Trigger, which at the time was my most complex gaming experience. I played and played and played... and returned the game... so sad... So, what I did, since I was into emulation at the time, was quite obvious. I played on my old 66 Mhz 486 processor the thing couldn't support a feather... It was horrible slow and even with ZSNES, horribly jumpy... That being the case, the only game I could play was Harvest moon, which I played in super slow motion and relied on rentals for FF3... That is, until I was able to get a cyrix 166 MHz processor... The thing was buggier than Sydney (hehe) and couldn't support many windows games, but it enabled me to play my emulators full speed with really bad skipping. That's when I started to play FF3(6) and I found FF5, and then I played FF2(4) and then I found FF4 hardtype translation project, which was far from being complete... I loved it! I finally found a translation for Seiken Densetsu 3 and I was so impressed that something so beautiful could exist on the super nintendo... Sony was making it big at that time, but I was satisfied with my super nintendo and my emulated super nintendo...

Until one day...

While visiting a Wal mart...

I stumbled across a demo disc...

that would forever change my life...

"Metal Gear Solid" Demo!

It was in Japanese, but it didn't matter... It was the single coolest thing I'd ever seen in my life... That Christmas, I was perfectly clear about what I wanted for Christmas... And, well, that doesn't end my super nintendo days, but it sure as heck lessened them... And that is the end of my story...

[Link Antilles]

Ah! The good 'ol SNES dayz!
*Looks through a dusty crate loaded with SNES games*

Zelda III: All-time fav! I've never beaten' a game over and over like this one and continue to play it.
Metroid III: I remember the first time I play through this game, I had no darn clue where I was. That's what I like about Metroid games!
Final Fantasy III: I loved the story
Super Mario World: It was like R-Type, you simply turn on and play
R-Type: See above
Chrono Trigger: Best battle system
Mario RPG: rivaled Chrono Trigger for me

I could gone on forever!
(I'm too sleepy....)

[madphilb]

Ink, I stand corrected... but I did have to read the message 3 times till I caught the "LOZ: Link to the Past"

BTW - Wednesday is the day I get to watch G4 (Mom was forced to go digital on her cable if she wanted to keep her pay channels), and pleasure of pleasures, Icons was on Zelda.

Maybe I should buy a Gamecube before I lose my job

PHIL

[BrianC]

Some of my favorite SNES games:
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy III (aka Final Fantasy VI)
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Mario World
Super Mario All Stars
Super Castlevania IV
Contra III
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Mario Kart
F-Zero
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Mega Man X
Star Fox
Kirby's Avalanche
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Punch Out

[Shinja]

did anyone but me ever play super c, contra for the snes, i love contra

[Echelon]

I am going to share with you a little story, about the best game I have ever played. EVER.

We weren't very rich, but mum hired a TV so we could play our SNES game son, and every week she would come home with a new rental game for us. It was 2 bucks (Australian) for a week,a dn so was very cheap. One day she brought home a game called Secret of Mana and I liked it so much I shwed my friend. He loved it two, and the beauty was, two people could play athe the SAME time.

So every afternoon (and I DO mena every) after school I would bring my contorller round to my friends hosue and we would sit for hours playing SoM while our mums had coffee. For 12 weeks 5 days a week, through shcool holidays (where it was an all day experience) we played this game, each boss promising our parents that there "could only be a few more left" and the game jsut kept on. 12 weeks and 24$ of sheer gmaing bliss.

This was indeed the best gaming experience of my life. Unfortunately I never got to ownt he game, and to this day ahve never found it.

[Echelon]

I am going to share with you a little story, about the best game I have ever played. EVER.

We weren't very rich, but mum hired a TV so we could play our SNES game son, and every week she would come home with a new rental game for us. It was 2 bucks (Australian) for a week,a dn so was very cheap. One day she brought home a game called Secret of Mana and I liked it so much I shwed my friend. He loved it two, and the beauty was, two people could play athe the SAME time.

So every afternoon (and I DO mena every) after school I would bring my contorller round to my friends hosue and we would sit for hours playing SoM while our mums had coffee. For 12 weeks 5 days a week, through shcool holidays (where it was an all day experience) we played this game, each boss promising our parents that there "could only be a few more left" and the game jsut kept on. 12 weeks and 24$ of sheer gmaing bliss.

This was indeed the best gaming experience of my life. Unfortunately I never got to ownt he game, and to this day ahve never found it.

[Razgriz]

Yeah, that's an awesome game. I loved the multiplayer option. They should have more multiplayer RPGs nowadays.

BTW, anyone buy the Super Scope bazooka?

[inkhana]

I did! I would have played it more, except the batteries always went dead after a very short period of time...but I guess it didn't help when you played all day, either...LOL

[Razgriz]

I did! I would have played it more, except the batteries always went dead after a very short period of time...but I guess it didn't help when you played all day, either...LOL

lol, yeah I had the same problems too. That thing was so much better than the regular "guns." My fav. games on that was Battle Clash/Metal Combat, very unique and very cool games. Too bad I had to get rid of it. *sigh* If they are going to make the Super Scope again for GC or the next gen. Nintendo system, I would get it right away.

[Saint]

Secret of Mana was fun i got it at Christmas the year it was released along with Super Bomberman (just because it came with the multi-tap). So then my brother, sister and I would all play SoM together. That was fun if you could all play as a team... i usually just played it alone.

[Bobtheduck]

Secret of Mana was fun i got it at Christmas the year it was released along with Super Bomberman (just because it came with the multi-tap). So then my brother, sister and I would all play SoM together. That was fun if you could all play as a team... i usually just played it alone.

Dangit, hit edit instead of reply by accident... that happens at least once a day... Anyhow, SUPER BOMBER MAN CAME WITH MULTITAP??? Man, I wish I knew that...

I play it on the dreamcast, emulated, which of course automatically has 4 controller ports, so I love playing it with friends... Of course, my friend who has a GC also has a bomberman game, therefore isn't interested in playing an old SNES game...

SOM is fun to play multiplayer as long as you have a pact to not use magic... If someone has the sprite, it's all over... You may as well stop playing... Of course some bosses you need magic, but usually you just use a weapon enhancement and use weapons that have elemental attributes. Oh, and silence comes in quite handy on some enemies.

[Zal-Utaon III]

Super Mario RPG
Primal Rage
Clayfighters (Dance Clown Dacne )
Killer Instint
Streetfighter
Super Mario Allstars