The fact that you're such a big part of the retro gaming sphere, and you haven't completed some of these "essential" titles is so relateable and refreshing. Not everyone has played everything. Not everyone had the same games or consoles. And a game like Chrono Trigger requires a big commitment. Some games fall through the net, and no one should be calling for your gaming license if they do. Nice one, Kim!
Hit the nail on the head there! I still haven't played chrono trigger and the older I get and the less time I have in the day its getting less likely I will get around to it
@@retrorystergaming577 Definitely! It's taken me a month to fire up 3D Dot Heroes after I bought it on eBay, and I've bearly been able to play it for an hour without being needed elsewhere!
I wasn't the only one watching going "omg it's not just me!" then! XD I blame my ADHD for me playing a game, going "that's so cool I must continue!..." then getting distracted by another shiny.
@@PoutingTrevor yea mate I feel you. Adult life unfortunately. When I hear my friends say theyve put 50hours of game time into say Ghost of Tsushima or Red dead 2 im thinking how on earth is that even possible???
Haha I did the same thing. It’s still my favourite game of all time. It’s incredible how well the gameplay and graphics holds up. As good as a lot of other SNES games look, nothing comes close to how incredible Yoshi’s Island looks.
Probably the best console of all time. There are so many great games that didn't make this list. Desert Strike, Flashback, Alien 3, Might and Magic, Super Bomberman, Legend of Mystical Ninja, Tiny Toon Adventures, NBA Jam, I could go on and on.
I'd rank Mario Kart higher than fzero. And original Sim City had so much charm for a city builder. Would include secret of mana. Really SNES needs at least a top100 list to do it justice :)
Super mariokart, zelda, super mario world, zombies ate my neighbours, secret of mana, shadowrun, syndicate, powermonger, bomberman, sim city, populus, king arthurs world...some of my favourite games.
I don't remember that being a thing either, but that may be because I am from the US and she is from the UK and reaction to yoshi may have been different over there for what ever reason. Though even if it IS something that is a misconception on her part it's entirely trivial and NOT something to basically bash someone over in the comments section, for crying out loud people.
I know what you mean with Sim City 2000. I did not have anything that could run Doom until the SNES version came out. I played the heck out of it. I beat all the episodes. I know it gets criticized a lot but its still perfectly payable.
When it came out I played it to death. When we used to go to Laser Quest I always used Anders (the turncoat Shadowrunner) as my name. Great story and music. Last completed it a few years ok.
@@maximumpowerup531 When I first played it I thought Anders was the only shadowrunner you could hire as when you highlighted him it said 'shadowrunner' lol. Then I found out you could hire nearly everyone at the clubs. I loved the atmosphere of that game the awesome cyberpunk setting . The music was great the rat shaman and vampire arc was a little out there.
It is a very special game indeed. When i first played a ROM of it back in the early-mid 2000s the first thing I thought was "this feels like a more grown up smash tv". And indeed, the devs who ported that arcade classic to the SNES (the defining version in my opinion) also made Shadowrun, and even some of the music sounds very similar!
My top 50 nostalgia Snes bombs 50. Mega Man 7 49. X Men Mutant Apocalypse 48. F Zero 47. Cannon Fodder 46. Lion King 45. Super Mario World 2 Yoshis Island 44. Rock and Roll Racing 43. Uniracers ( Unirally ) 42. Alien 3 41. Mario Paint 40. Jurassic Park 39. Street Fighter 2 World Warrior 38. Super Bomberman 37. Striker 36. Parodius 35. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 34. Super Buster Bros ( Super Pang) 33. Earthworm Jim 32. Equinox 31. Kirby Superstar 30. Space Megaforce ( Super Aleste) 29. Actraiser 28. Killer Instinct 27. Battletoads in Battlemaniacs 26. Contra 3 ( Super Probotector ) 25. Earthbound 24. Zombies Ate my Neighbours 23. International Superstar Soccer Deluxe 22. Starfox 21. Earthworm Jim 2 20. Mortal Kombat 2 19. Secret of Mana 18. Super Mario Allstars 17. Street Fighter 2 Turbo 16. Super Ghouls and Ghosts 15. Super Mario Kart 14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time 13. Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixie Kong Double Trouble 12. Super Star Wars 11. Mega Man X 10. Axelay 9. Pilotwings 8.Illusion of Gaia ( Illusion of Time ) 7. Legend of Zelda Link to the Past 6. Super Mario RPG 5. Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddys Kong Quest 4. Super Mario World 3. Super Castlevania 4 2. Donkey Kong Country 1. Super Metroid
Yoshi's Island is such a masterpiece. Aside from getting 100% i can't even really think of anything about it that I dislike. It checks out on everything that I love about 2d platformers.
Me too! My favourite game of all time, doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Holds up insanely well, the game still looks incredible to today. Going through this list it looks like it’s a generation beyond every other game on this list.
Chrono Trigger is definitely #1 in my opinion. I suppose I'm biased as this game was one of the first RPGs I played on Super Nintendo, outside of LOZ. I feel like it *WAS* a hidden gem, not so much anymore, but hey! still gotta love this game.
You know a system has a fantastic line-up of titles when, even though it's known far & wide as an RPG machine, _and_ is home to some of the greatest console RPGs of all time...only 2 RPGs make the top 50 of a Top 50 list.
I remember winning rounds of Biker Mice From Mars by just killing all the opponents one by one instead of actually racing. Good times. Nice seeing some The Firemen representation.
KIM this list was dynamite. I respect the hell out of this list..you kept it true to yourself and i love the hell out of a it a lot more then a lot of other youtubers. You thoroughly impressed me here. Great work.
(Hagane: The Final Conflict) was never a Blockbuster Exclusive, that was just an urban myth started by CGRundertoe and Mike Matei that just ended up inflating the after market price. SNES Drunk even debunked this in one of his Videos ua-cam.com/video/j7Mkyb5uX0A/v-deo.html
Holly smoke! I'm a big Rik Mayall fan and just watched his Nintendo adverts on you tube thanks to your video! With an advertising campaign like that, Iit's no wonder I bought a gameboy and snes in the 90's and am still addicted to Nintendo today..😂
Really enjoyed this list, completely different from my own (which is why I love these lists). The 3rd in my list isn't even featured here 🙈 and I 100% agree that DKC is my favorite of the series as well.
Great video mate. Agree with the placing on Yoshi’s Island, great to see it get some love, far and away the best looking game on the system. Not to mention the incredible level design. The one I would argue with the placement the most is DKC2, platforming perfection in my opinion. My Top 5 is: 1. Yoshi’s Island 2. Donkey Kong Country 2 3. Super Metroid 4. Final Fantasy VI 5. Chrono Trigger
Holy shit. The exact same thing always happened to me with FF6. Chrono Trigger on the other hand, I slept like 4 hours total between starting it and finishing. Edit: F Zero's soundtrack is one of the best of all time
The SNES is my second favourite console. Nice to see you mentioned Kirby’s Dream Course, my fave. I have poor hand eye coordination and the game does not require twitch reflexes only planning.
It was the same situation for me with Sim City 2000, I so wanted but would never have the right stuff at home to play it. Then one day I walked into Dixons and they had Sim City 2000 for £49.99. I played it to death and was an amazing port for the SNES. I played it right up to the day I got my PC years later.
@Marcus M, same story here, except I bought my copy of the game through the mail from a video game store in New Jersey, USA (I think), along with some other good shooter games, namely, Darius Twin, Phalanx, Super R-Type, and R-Type III: The Third Lightning (which both Phalanx and R-Type III: The Third Lightning also have GBA ports).
Great list! And by that I mean that I, of course, disagree with most of it but it was still entertaining and informative! I envy the fact that you have yet to play / finish so many Zelda games and Square classics. I wish I could experience those for the first time again. I recommend Dragon Quest 5 in particular. It's often overlooked in the west, but it's part of the SNES holy trinity of rpgs alongside FF6 and Chrono Trigger.
Just found you last night. Big fan. Also I love your opening. Brings me back to the 80s/90s for some odd reason. Anyhow. Keep up the good work. And thanks for the great videos.
I played Sim City 2000 back in the days. It really was great. I even needed to create a start disk so it could run with my 4 MB RAM machine. That was the first time I created one and I felt like a god when it worked. Music and sound only worked when I upgraded to 8 MB though.
This is a true story, but one of my high school teachers told me about how much that they loved playing The Lost Vikings and I have yet to play the game. :(
I'll be honest, I'm surprised Super Mario World wasn't in the top 10, especially considering the time. There was simply nothing quite like it for the first couple of years of the SNES life.
Great list but you missed a couple of great games. Pocky and Rocky, True Lies, The Chaos Engine, SENSIBLE SOCCER, CANNON FODDER, Jim Power, Legend and many others.
The spiritual prequel and sequel to Super Smash T.V., which are Robotron 2084 and Total Carnage, respectively, also got SNES/NSFC ports, the latter under its own title and the former under an arcade collection that is called Williams' Arcade Greatest Hits. Both games also got Sega Genesis/Mega Drive ports under the same titles as they appeared on the SNES/NSFC, and Smash T.V. even had a surprisingly good NES/FDS port as well.
Ooh, i forget the rest of the world says SNES , in the States *Super N.E.S* oooh well yall our the proper 1s 😅 , so many good beat em up's on SNES Super Double Dragon and Final Fight , brawl brothers etc , i even like Data East Sengoku
Kudo's on SimCity2000, love that game, it's one that you can always fire up when you actually want to kill some time on a game. I even play the original sometimes... one of the few games that you have to take slowly. I remember getting the Playstation version, and leaving it on for days on end just collecting taxes.
Great video, watched it again straight after. But Kim, where's Super Bomberman? and Final Fight? There are so many more great SNES games, would you ever expand this to top 100?
I've had many people argue with me that they just weren't a fan of the digitized graphics at the time. Although, I think many people were just burnt out on the use of them after Mortal Kombat popularized it and the style sort of blew up. The art style really has nothing to do with how great the game is, so I never got the argument.
Excellent video!! It's a very good list of 50 game gems from the best of SNES. And the important thing about everything that includes all variety of genres and is aimed at all tastes and is a great guide to selecting and buying games. Cheers!!
I still remember demons crest being stacked walls deep at the toy shops when i was a wee lad because nobody ever bought it. If only i had bought the whole damn shelve lol.
If you want to check out another Kirby game, I recommend Kirby's Adventure on the NES. It's very creative and beautiful, and a lot of fun despite the fact that it's not very challenging.
If the slowdown in Super Ghouls n' Ghosts bothers you, you may want to try the version that on Capcom Classics Collection for PS2. I don't know if it was intentionally overclocked or if it's just an emulation issue, but it seriously reduces the slowdown if not removing it entirely - at least on the NTSC version, never played it on PAL.
We could perhaps spend a whole lifetime talking about the old 16 bit masterpieces of the SNES! It’s probably my favorite old time system other than PSX.. It’s one Achilles Heel may be limited quantity of the great quality shoot em ups of TurboGrafX for example.. I’m really not sure which platformer should rank highest DKC, Castlevania 4 or SMW.. Sorry I guess I should get on top of tackling SMW2 lol I keep on forgetting I have it with the SNES Classic Edition IDK it’s just a bit hard to go back before this era unless we’re getting into the classic arcade cabinet type of gaming.. Outside of Commodore and Amiga I suppose
Actraiser 2 is actually not as bad as it seems at first. It's just way different from the first game, more similar to something like Hagane. Very hard, but also a lot of moves to master right off the bat.
i've come to tell people that Actraiser 2 is a fighting game that just happens to involve platforming. A lot of the really satisfying high-level stuff in that game is similar to what you see in that genre, e.g. exploiting hitboxes & figuring out which moves have invincible frames.
Long time fan, awesome video as usual. Wanted to say though, Hagane actually wasnt a blockbuster exclusive, I believe that got debunked 2 years ago, but yeah it's so odd the story behind that one in general lol anyways look forward to the next vid!
Speaking of Horizon Chase Turbo, some of the people that worked on the Top Gear (or, as they most likely called it in PAL regions, for obvious reasons, Top Racer, though, ironically, NTSB-U regions, specifically, the USA, would actually get a version of Top Gear of their own, to mixed reviews) series also did the music for that game, and one of the tracks for Top Gear/Top Racer was actually in the OST of Horizon Chase Turbo.
Krono trigger Mario kart Mario All-Stars, Mortal Kombat three Mortal Kombat two street fighter alpha-2 the list goes on contra three Castlevania great Consol
my top 10 Gemfire Liberty or Death Aerobiz Uncharted Waters Sim City Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball Inindo: Way of the Ninja Chrono Trigger Robotrek Final Fantasy IV
Kim you bring me so much comfort in dark times with your retro reviews. Thankyou.
The fact that you're such a big part of the retro gaming sphere, and you haven't completed some of these "essential" titles is so relateable and refreshing. Not everyone has played everything. Not everyone had the same games or consoles. And a game like Chrono Trigger requires a big commitment. Some games fall through the net, and no one should be calling for your gaming license if they do. Nice one, Kim!
Hit the nail on the head there! I still haven't played chrono trigger and the older I get and the less time I have in the day its getting less likely I will get around to it
@@retrorystergaming577 Definitely! It's taken me a month to fire up 3D Dot Heroes after I bought it on eBay, and I've bearly been able to play it for an hour without being needed elsewhere!
I wasn't the only one watching going "omg it's not just me!" then! XD I blame my ADHD for me playing a game, going "that's so cool I must continue!..." then getting distracted by another shiny.
@@PoutingTrevor yea mate I feel you. Adult life unfortunately. When I hear my friends say theyve put 50hours of game time into say Ghost of Tsushima or Red dead 2 im thinking how on earth is that even possible???
Ye
I got to number 2 on the list and thought "this is Bullshit where is Yoshi's Island".
Then I got to number one and tipped my hat to Kim.
Haha I did the same thing. It’s still my favourite game of all time. It’s incredible how well the gameplay and graphics holds up. As good as a lot of other SNES games look, nothing comes close to how incredible Yoshi’s Island looks.
Probably the best console of all time. There are so many great games that didn't make this list. Desert Strike, Flashback, Alien 3, Might and Magic, Super Bomberman, Legend of Mystical Ninja, Tiny Toon Adventures, NBA Jam, I could go on and on.
Forgot all about this Rik Mayall adverts, absolutely brilliant
to be fair, god bless Rick. RIP
shameless plug, ua-cam.com/video/1jjFEFyI8FU/v-deo.html
Came to comments to say just this....Drop Dead Fred is an underrated movie and should have got a lot more praise as a classic comedy.
I'd rank Mario Kart higher than fzero. And original Sim City had so much charm for a city builder. Would include secret of mana. Really SNES needs at least a top100 list to do it justice :)
ayy i see what you did there!
1. Super Mario Kart
2. Streetfighter 2 Turbo
3. Link to the Past
4. Super Mario World
5. Super Tennis
Super mariokart, zelda, super mario world, zombies ate my neighbours, secret of mana, shadowrun, syndicate, powermonger, bomberman, sim city, populus, king arthurs world...some of my favourite games.
Eh? People didn't like Yoshi at the time? That's new to me
I was gonna say the same! I think it's Toad that people hate because of his annoying presence in the Mario cartoons.
Yeah don’t remember that at all. Had a SNES when it came out
Dumb. Fucking loved Yoshi.
I don't remember that being a thing either, but that may be because I am from the US and she is from the UK and reaction to yoshi may have been different over there for what ever reason. Though even if it IS something that is a misconception on her part it's entirely trivial and NOT something to basically bash someone over in the comments section, for crying out loud people.
Everybody in my third grade class could draw Yoshi.
I know what you mean with Sim City 2000. I did not have anything that could run Doom until the SNES version came out.
I played the heck out of it. I beat all the episodes. I know it gets criticized a lot but its still perfectly payable.
Shadowrun was my all time favourite on the SNES!!
One of my alltime fave games👍-Paul
@@maximumpowerup531 Awesome to hear!! I don't meet many people who have played it let alone it being one of their favourites there chummer
When it came out I played it to death. When we used to go to Laser Quest I always used Anders (the turncoat Shadowrunner) as my name. Great story and music. Last completed it a few years ok.
@@maximumpowerup531 When I first played it I thought Anders was the only shadowrunner you could hire as when you highlighted him it said 'shadowrunner' lol. Then I found out you could hire nearly everyone at the clubs. I loved the atmosphere of that game the awesome cyberpunk setting . The music was great the rat shaman and vampire arc was a little out there.
It is a very special game indeed. When i first played a ROM of it back in the early-mid 2000s the first thing I thought was "this feels like a more grown up smash tv".
And indeed, the devs who ported that arcade classic to the SNES (the defining version in my opinion) also made Shadowrun, and even some of the music sounds very similar!
I'm really falling in love with the channel after a few days of scouring. The long format stuff especially is great
Hagane being a Blockbuster exclusive is actually (ACK-chually) just an urban legend.
this is my ~5th time watching this, it's always late at night and i fall asleep to your vids...best thing i've found this year is kim
My top 50 nostalgia Snes bombs
50. Mega Man 7
49. X Men Mutant Apocalypse
48. F Zero
47. Cannon Fodder
46. Lion King
45. Super Mario World 2 Yoshis Island
44. Rock and Roll Racing
43. Uniracers ( Unirally )
42. Alien 3
41. Mario Paint
40. Jurassic Park
39. Street Fighter 2 World Warrior
38. Super Bomberman
37. Striker
36. Parodius
35. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
34. Super Buster Bros ( Super Pang)
33. Earthworm Jim
32. Equinox
31. Kirby Superstar
30. Space Megaforce ( Super Aleste)
29. Actraiser
28. Killer Instinct
27. Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
26. Contra 3 ( Super Probotector )
25. Earthbound
24. Zombies Ate my Neighbours
23. International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
22. Starfox
21. Earthworm Jim 2
20. Mortal Kombat 2
19. Secret of Mana
18. Super Mario Allstars
17. Street Fighter 2 Turbo
16. Super Ghouls and Ghosts
15. Super Mario Kart
14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
13. Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixie Kong Double Trouble
12. Super Star Wars
11. Mega Man X
10. Axelay
9. Pilotwings
8.Illusion of Gaia ( Illusion of Time )
7. Legend of Zelda Link to the Past
6. Super Mario RPG
5. Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddys Kong Quest
4. Super Mario World
3. Super Castlevania 4
2. Donkey Kong Country
1. Super Metroid
39. Super Street Fighter 2 not World Warrior tho
Yoshi's Island is such a masterpiece. Aside from getting 100% i can't even really think of anything about it that I dislike. It checks out on everything that I love about 2d platformers.
Me too! My favourite game of all time, doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Holds up insanely well, the game still looks incredible to today. Going through this list it looks like it’s a generation beyond every other game on this list.
Fantastic list as always. I have to go with Super Metroid and Earthbound as my personal faves on the system.
Love the details and uniqueness in your lists! Long live the SNES! 🎉
That Yoshi's Island placing earned my sub, great list.
The music in Parodius reminds me of Stranger In Paradise.
Big money, Big prizes - I love it!. I played it a lot. don't think that i ever got to the pleasure dome.
Chrono Trigger is definitely #1 in my opinion. I suppose I'm biased as this game was one of the first RPGs I played on Super Nintendo, outside of LOZ. I feel like it *WAS* a hidden gem, not so much anymore, but hey! still gotta love this game.
You know a system has a fantastic line-up of titles when, even though it's known far & wide as an RPG machine, _and_ is home to some of the greatest console RPGs of all time...only 2 RPGs make the top 50 of a Top 50 list.
Love these lists, Kim! Keep up the good work!
I remember winning rounds of Biker Mice From Mars by just killing all the opponents one by one instead of actually racing. Good times.
Nice seeing some The Firemen representation.
Ahh, Axelay. The first game to let me lay my axe.
It's incredible how small in size a lot of SNES games are, but are definitely packed full of value.
Super Probotector is in my top 5. 😎👍
Def play more Kirby games, theyre fantastic.
KIM this list was dynamite. I respect the hell out of this list..you kept it true to yourself and i love the hell out of a it a lot more then a lot of other youtubers.
You thoroughly impressed me here. Great work.
(Hagane: The Final Conflict) was never a Blockbuster Exclusive, that was just an urban myth started by CGRundertoe and Mike Matei that just ended up inflating the after market price.
SNES Drunk even debunked this in one of his Videos
ua-cam.com/video/j7Mkyb5uX0A/v-deo.html
Mike Matei sucks.
Had never heard of or played Hagane. Cheers for that recommendation. Will check it out.
Can't wait for you to make one of these list for the PS1, my favorite console. It's still fun to watch these in the mean time though :D
ISS Deluxe was a legendary football game and then PS1 PES and ISS on N64. My Brother and I never touched FIFA again until the PS3 era.
"the dinosaur that everyone hated at first"
Kim, what parallel dimension are you recording in?
Holly smoke! I'm a big Rik Mayall fan and just watched his Nintendo adverts on you tube thanks to your video! With an advertising campaign like that, Iit's no wonder I bought a gameboy and snes in the 90's and am still addicted to Nintendo today..😂
Lufia II Rise of the Sinistrals is a really underrated JRPG
Really enjoyed this list, completely different from my own (which is why I love these lists). The 3rd in my list isn't even featured here 🙈 and I 100% agree that DKC is my favorite of the series as well.
I will try not to judge to much on this this is my favorite system
Kim , you truly are the best.
Great video mate. Agree with the placing on Yoshi’s Island, great to see it get some love, far and away the best looking game on the system. Not to mention the incredible level design. The one I would argue with the placement the most is DKC2, platforming perfection in my opinion. My Top 5 is:
1. Yoshi’s Island
2. Donkey Kong Country 2
3. Super Metroid
4. Final Fantasy VI
5. Chrono Trigger
Mario All-Stars is such a fun game
Holy shit. The exact same thing always happened to me with FF6. Chrono Trigger on the other hand, I slept like 4 hours total between starting it and finishing.
Edit: F Zero's soundtrack is one of the best of all time
Carrier airwing IS THE BEST. NOBODY EVER REFERENCES THIS GAME. Except kim. 3 times now. Seriously you gotta play it if you have not!
Got the pcb - awesome game. But then I’m a big fan of UN Squadron too so no surprise I guess
Thanx man, just bought lost vikings. never heard of it but it looks awesome. can't wait to play.
The aesthetic in the clip of Actraiser reminds me of the second zone in Sonic the Hedgehog.
+Feenix
A lot of stone and spikes!
a e s t h e t i c *
mt list:
1. Zelda III
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Super Metroid
4. Final Fantasy 6
5. Super Mario World
Never played Earthbound of Secret of Mana.
Everything I excepted was here. Only game I also thought would appear on this list is Earthbound.
I think you meant expected not excepted, which is like exception to the rule?
The SNES is my second favourite console. Nice to see you mentioned Kirby’s Dream Course, my fave. I have poor hand eye coordination and the game does not require twitch reflexes only planning.
The SNES had so many good games, I don't think I'd be able to make a top 50 list, but I definitely would have put Mario RPG and Kirby Superstar on it.
Always love your commentary on games. Good stuff
Very entertaining as always. Thank you, and i hope for more of these lists.
Great list, the only thing missing is the fantastic RPG Secret of Mana.
Kim Justice. Bringing the thunder to make Friday so damn sweet!
It was the same situation for me with Sim City 2000, I so wanted but would never have the right stuff at home to play it. Then one day I walked into Dixons and they had Sim City 2000 for £49.99. I played it to death and was an amazing port for the SNES. I played it right up to the day I got my PC years later.
@Marcus M, same story here, except I bought my copy of the game through the mail from a video game store in New Jersey, USA (I think), along with some other good shooter games, namely, Darius Twin, Phalanx, Super R-Type, and R-Type III: The Third Lightning (which both Phalanx and R-Type III: The Third Lightning also have GBA ports).
Yeah, I had it for the Amiga, hen I got the Snes version, loved i!
Fire Pro Wrestling gameplay: Vader vs. Misawa
Kim is a woman of impeccable taste.
Pretty sure the reviewer is a guy and Kim Justice is just a name he made up?
@@philiphowell6336 Kim is a girl. She said so herself, she would know.
that's definitely a mans voice.
@@philiphowell6336 I've been following this channel for years. Kim is a woman. I don't know what else to tell you.
@@djozr I think she is trans then but it doesn't matter, I enjoyed the video and I accept people from all walks of life.
Great list! And by that I mean that I, of course, disagree with most of it but it was still entertaining and informative! I envy the fact that you have yet to play / finish so many Zelda games and Square classics. I wish I could experience those for the first time again. I recommend Dragon Quest 5 in particular. It's often overlooked in the west, but it's part of the SNES holy trinity of rpgs alongside FF6 and Chrono Trigger.
Secret of mana was also a jrpg classic on snes.
Just found you last night. Big fan.
Also I love your opening. Brings me back to the 80s/90s for some odd reason.
Anyhow. Keep up the good work. And thanks for the great videos.
Another great video Kim! I always find at least few new games to check out in all your lists, so keep up the great work!
I played Sim City 2000 back in the days.
It really was great. I even needed to create a start disk so it could run with my 4 MB RAM machine. That was the first time I created one and I felt like a god when it worked. Music and sound only worked when I upgraded to 8 MB though.
I am just starting to enjoy the Snes in 2021, good list, and some fantastic games to play here thanks
Great video like always. Surprised to not see super punch out in your list since punch out scored so high in your nes list.
This is a true story, but one of my high school teachers told me about how much that they loved playing The Lost Vikings and I have yet to play the game. :(
As always Kim, great video, loving your work...
I'll be honest, I'm surprised Super Mario World wasn't in the top 10, especially considering the time. There was simply nothing quite like it for the first couple of years of the SNES life.
Great list but you missed a couple of great games. Pocky and Rocky, True Lies, The Chaos Engine, SENSIBLE SOCCER, CANNON FODDER, Jim Power, Legend and many others.
The spiritual prequel and sequel to Super Smash T.V., which are Robotron 2084 and Total Carnage, respectively, also got SNES/NSFC ports, the latter under its own title and the former under an arcade collection that is called Williams' Arcade Greatest Hits. Both games also got Sega Genesis/Mega Drive ports under the same titles as they appeared on the SNES/NSFC, and Smash T.V. even had a surprisingly good NES/FDS port as well.
Firestriker... good times! Check out the spiritual sequel Strikey Sisters. :)
Great list! I would've included puzzlers like Panel de Pon/Tetris Attack and Super Puyo Puyo 2.
Ooh, i forget the rest of the world says SNES , in the States
*Super N.E.S* oooh well yall our the proper 1s 😅 , so many good beat em up's on SNES Super Double Dragon and Final Fight , brawl brothers etc , i even like Data East Sengoku
You have a ton of games to catch up here, Kim.
Not just the RpGs, but great games like Kirby Superstar.
Star Fox, Probotector, Mario Kart, SM World, TMNT in time, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter
Kudo's on SimCity2000, love that game, it's one that you can always fire up when you actually want to kill some time on a game. I even play the original sometimes... one of the few games that you have to take slowly. I remember getting the Playstation version, and leaving it on for days on end just collecting taxes.
Great video, watched it again straight after. But Kim, where's Super Bomberman? and Final Fight? There are so many more great SNES games, would you ever expand this to top 100?
I'd like to know the circles you hung around in if people criticised the massively acclaimed dk country. Game was a smash when it came out
I've had many people argue with me that they just weren't a fan of the digitized graphics at the time. Although, I think many people were just burnt out on the use of them after Mortal Kombat popularized it and the style sort of blew up. The art style really has nothing to do with how great the game is, so I never got the argument.
Super Tennis should be higher up the list. The first game I reach for when the SNES comes out again...
Definitely top 5 for me. An all time great
Great game. But the SNES had so many great titles--I can see why he put it where he did. I’d put it about #20 myself.
I prefer Smash Tennis
You are missing out on the Kirby series. Please play them! I would love to see a series retrospective.
Excellent video!! It's a very good list of 50 game gems from the best of SNES. And the important thing about everything that includes all variety of genres and is aimed at all tastes and is a great guide to selecting and buying games. Cheers!!
I still remember demons crest being stacked walls deep at the toy shops when i was a wee lad because nobody ever bought it. If only i had bought the whole damn shelve lol.
huh? no mortal Kombat 2, Super bomberman, Super punch out ? crazy !!!
Great top 50. One of my favourite SNES games was Unirally. (Uniracers) in the states. Top 2 player action.
@James Da Costa, I played Unirally/Uniracers as well...I honestly was only marginally impressed with the game.
Great list Kim .. ton of stuff I had not even heard of before.
If you want to check out another Kirby game, I recommend Kirby's Adventure on the NES. It's very creative and beautiful, and a lot of fun despite the fact that it's not very challenging.
Love your videos pal, this was one of my favourite, as they just physically have better graphics than the Megadrive!
SNES is my favorite, and only console. It has all the games I'd ever want to play. It's timeless.
A great list. Personally I would squeeze in PLOK!, Super SWIV and the immensely underrated Krusty's Super Fun House.
The Lost Vikings games were so fun, my brother and I sank a lot of time into those games, lol.
If the slowdown in Super Ghouls n' Ghosts bothers you, you may want to try the version that on Capcom Classics Collection for PS2. I don't know if it was intentionally overclocked or if it's just an emulation issue, but it seriously reduces the slowdown if not removing it entirely - at least on the NTSC version, never played it on PAL.
Or just emulate it and overclock the CPU and while you're at it remove the sprite limit to get rid of the annoying flickering.
We could perhaps spend a whole lifetime talking about the old 16 bit masterpieces of the SNES! It’s probably my favorite old time system other than PSX.. It’s one Achilles Heel may be limited quantity of the great quality shoot em ups of TurboGrafX for example..
I’m really not sure which platformer should rank highest DKC, Castlevania 4 or SMW.. Sorry I guess I should get on top of tackling SMW2 lol I keep on forgetting I have it with the SNES Classic Edition
IDK it’s just a bit hard to go back before this era unless we’re getting into the classic arcade cabinet type of gaming.. Outside of Commodore and Amiga I suppose
That bullocks! The best game on the SNES is Earthbound 100%
Actraiser 2 is actually not as bad as it seems at first. It's just way different from the first game, more similar to something like Hagane. Very hard, but also a lot of moves to master right off the bat.
it is pretty gorgeous too, very beautifull graphics.
i've come to tell people that Actraiser 2 is a fighting game that just happens to involve platforming. A lot of the really satisfying high-level stuff in that game is similar to what you see in that genre, e.g. exploiting hitboxes & figuring out which moves have invincible frames.
Long time fan, awesome video as usual. Wanted to say though, Hagane actually wasnt a blockbuster exclusive, I believe that got debunked 2 years ago, but yeah it's so odd the story behind that one in general lol anyways look forward to the next vid!
Well those games you play today, they might be very flash, but they'll never beat the thrill of Super Mario Kart... hey hey 16 bit!
Thank you Kim. A well enjoyed episode.
Been looking forward to this.
Always look forward to these.
An Acorn/BBC top 50 would be cool.
The sheer volume of things that Kim has reviewed has to be a record of some sort.
Speaking of Horizon Chase Turbo, some of the people that worked on the Top Gear (or, as they most likely called it in PAL regions, for obvious reasons, Top Racer, though, ironically, NTSB-U regions, specifically, the USA, would actually get a version of Top Gear of their own, to mixed reviews) series also did the music for that game, and one of the tracks for Top Gear/Top Racer was actually in the OST of Horizon Chase Turbo.
Krono trigger Mario kart Mario All-Stars, Mortal Kombat three Mortal Kombat two street fighter alpha-2 the list goes on contra three Castlevania great Consol
my top 10
Gemfire
Liberty or Death
Aerobiz
Uncharted Waters
Sim City
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
Inindo: Way of the Ninja
Chrono Trigger
Robotrek
Final Fantasy IV
You could make a video about your top 50 phone numbers and I'd still love it! :)