Not U.N. Squadron. Chrono Trigger wasn't the first Japanese RPG. Like getting two games in one, half of the levels scrolled vertically while the other half displayed the action from the side. The game is a remake of the SNES classic which is one of the finest Western-themed games ever made. Really poorly translated text. The success of that rival series didn't mean Double Dragon itself was done, though, and in 1992 this SNES-exclusive sequel arrived. In the 1990s, this was revolutionary. While previous Contra games drew inspiration from action movies like Rambo and Aliens, Contra III features some suspiciously Terminator-like cyborgs, an evil Boba Fett wannabe and whole host of other blockbuster movie references that add to its distinct early 1990s charm. But a little company called Rare shocked us all by developing such an amazing and eye-catching new graphical style that no one could imagine the Super was actually capable of such graphical feats. You rode Tauntauns across the frozen wastes of Hoth, flipped and dashed your way through the bogs of Dagobah and tried not to lose your footing and fall to your death from the precipitous heights of Cloud City. While the SNES Mouse peripheral never really took off in the grand scheme of things, it did give us Mario Paint, a Nintendo themed creativity studio complete with drawing, animation, music composition modes even mini-games! Though the company's known almost entirely for massively popular PC titles like World of Warcraft and Starcraft II today, Blizzard Entertainment was once one of the Super Nintendo's most intriguing third-party developers bringing us hits like The Lost Vikings, Rock 'N Roll Racing and this game, Blackthorne. It's true they were only one of three current teams to operate under the umbrella of a company instead of an individual entrepreneur. Top Gear 2 looks, feels and plays a lot like NES titles like Rad Racer did years before, with the boost of 16-bit processing power giving the whole experience a fresh coat of paint. Back in 1997, after everyone had already migrated over to the N64, Kirby hit the aged SNES with this platformer sequel. Your ship can transform into different modes, each with a unique style of fire and independently ungradable. Like a combination of Contra and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, Sunset Riders was a side-scrolling brawler where no one ever got punched just shot. Utilizing the new FX chip (whatever that does) this game unleashed polygonny goodness upon the kids of the 90's for the first time ever. . It can be played with the regular controller or with a SNES Mouse for "more accurate" control. The opera scene is one of the most memorable moments in Final Fantasy history. Over there it was Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, starring Sonic the Hedgehog's arch-nemesis in the title role. That bit of legal trouble kept Uniracers from having the larger print run it deserved, which means there's a good chance you never got to experience its inventive design that combined high-speed racing on wild, looping courses with a unique stunt system. Blue. But hey, this is the first one! This head-to-head fighter was a fusion of the best elements of its age. Mario Paint had a little something for everyone and its no surprise that fans have been clamoring for a sequel since its original release in 1992. No doubt you'll have some disagreements. We've featured a good spread of all these strains in the following top 25 list. The game was bold and memorable, but you'll have to wait until a bit later for it to show up here SoulBlazer, in the meanwhile, was a "follow-up" of sorts released one year later. This SNES sequel to the NES headache-inducer Ghosts 'N Goblins was, for its part, just as likely to send players reaching for the Tylenol and picking up the broken pieces of their shattered controllers from the ground. Those who did stick with the SNES long enough to own Dixie Kong's Double Trouble got an incredible conclusion to Rare's cycle of 16-bit platformers. Maybe parents took offense to the creepy demonic art on its box? There is a free fanmade version for PC called GridWars 2 :) . Altogether it was great Superman video game. Donkey Kong Country is the game that saved the Super Nintendo. Here it is the first official four-player game for the SNES. Well, kind of three. It took the one-on-one combat made popular by Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, and paired it with a visual presentation rendered in the same computer-generated style that made Donkey Kong Country such an eye-catcher. . All of these reasons make it one of the best the SNES has to offer. Platform(s): SNES Genre: Top Down Shooter Estimated year of release: Probably early 90s Graphics/art style: classic 16Bit game, not really impressive graphics for the time. . Hakuna Matata! 3D 19th-century American sim with survival, farming & FPS elements. What really makes Tetris Attack stand out is its competitive mode in which you can send evil blocks raining down on your opponent's game. (And released just before the ESRB started putting warnings of such content on game boxes. Kart took racing through the jungle and off a cliff, imbuing players with power-ups and all sorts of crazy antics, including a highly addictive multiplayer mode. From the moment you set foot on Zebes to the moment you leave it exploding in your wake, every moment of this game is unadulterated fun, and it only gets better the further you get. Though we honored Super Bomberman 2 earlier in our list, we have to give greater credit to the game that Hudson used to first present four-way play to Super Nintendo owners, courtesy of their Super Multitap device. The game offered hardcore players of the day a great challenge, too, and completing it quickly became a badge of honor for SNES players. This sequel was also supported by a variety of fourth-wall-breaking nods to other Konami properties, like a playable Gradius mini-game. It's secretly kind of brilliant in its own right. There are also plentiful characters and weapons to equip, making for a highly strategic, and highly satisfying, RPG experience. I. It sold millions, established Peter's creative mind and kickstarted the chain of events that got him to where he is today. And Nintendo's ownership actually dated back almost to the beginning of the SNES life cycle, so it's not too surprising that the company capitalized on their acquisition by publishing a couple of first-party baseball sims for their newest system. When Sony's first PlayStation arrived, people started getting drawn to its modern media format and promise of 3D visuals. Still, when you're talking about the first three Super Mario Bros. games, it's hard to protest too much. You could grow bat wings or bird feathers. The resulting adventure to recover Jake's identity and learn what led up to his attempted assassination was a milestone for the introduction of film noir style into the gaming industry, though, so we can forgive the game for only being 90% groundbreaking. With flawless action, impeccable level design, out-of-this-world atmosphere, a totally badass heroine, and an enormous overworld to explore, few games can hope to reach its rung on the ladder of pure gaming bliss. And now the other franchise that most defined the '90s fighting genre. Every system gets some first-party-published version of each of the three, with Wii Sports' combo of the trio serving as the most recent example and Mario starring in several in generations prior. Sections on this page: Firepower 2000 (AKA Super SWIV), Imperium, Thunder Spirits, BioMetal, Gradius III, Darius Twin / Darius Force, Axelay, R-Type III: The Third Lightning, Space Megaforce (AKA Super Aleste), and U.N. Squadron. Sometimes the enemies you'd kill would have purple blood, sometimes green. Turtle Power! Kirby's Dream Course trumps all of the pink hero's other 16-bit efforts in our eyes for how amazingly inventive it was. The gameplay evolved and gave players a choice between multiple Force options the Force being that floating, extra pod thing that accompanies your ship in R-Type games. Sure the SNES isn't really known for its top down shooters like the Turbografx or Genesis, but these are still pretty decent games, and are mostly affordable, with the exception of R-Type III. When you made it to dry land you could evolve legs bred for hopping or running. This first-party puzzler is mostly known for the distinction of its NES edition, as it served as the last officially released game for that 8-bit system when it shipped to stores over 9 years after the NES first went on sale in America. A game for the SNES of which was kind of like Contra but instead it was a top-down scrolling instead. (And we can't really put the later sequels 3, 4 or 5 in this spot, since they sadly never came to North America.). Illusion of Gaia was something of a spiritual sequel to it and was done so well that Nintendo actually took notice of the game and published it as a first-party release here in America. Gamers were thrilled by the top quality of sound and immersive graphics. Be sure to leave your thoughts! Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Any old run-and-gun shooter game can cast war-hardened soldiers or shirtless commandoes as its heroes, but it takes real guts to design a hardcore shooter with happy, smiling, cutesy characters instead. The variety offered by the new Shadow and Cyclone options gave this particular assault against the Bydo Empire a lot of replay value too. Somehow, someway, Natsume's Harvest Moon series managed to make managing a farmstead in a video game feel exciting and rewarding and this first game was so successful, in fact, that it spawned an entire franchise. Donkey Kong was groundbreaking at the time in having cutscenes and . But you can't help us if we're just a little biased toward Kirby's edition. A Game Boy version was also released in Japan and Europe. Mario World doesn't reinvent platform gaming, but it does find a way to make it seem fresh again, introducing ideas like Yoshi, expanding the Mushroom Kingdom's zany cast of characters and blowing our minds with some truly excellent visuals and audio. The original Legend of Zelda for NES set the basic structure the series would continue to follow for the next quarter century. Though it called him "Kid Ying" at the time, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja introduced us to Goemon's world a wacky take on feudal Japan where cartoonish demons are just as likely to goof around and crack a joke as they are to attack you. This game is nuts a side-scrolling shooter starring real-world jet fighters instead of spaceships and featuring a cast of anime-styled characters, it packed in tons of power-up items, explosive boss battles and even a running cash total for your pilots. His debut was the stuff of perception-altering legend, as his game was filled with off-the-wall environments, mind-bending music and enemies with really, really odd names. This time around, Donkey Kong himself is captured by Kremlings and its up to Diddy Kong and newcomer Dixie Kong to hop and bop their way through dozens of beautiful and challenging levels to save him. A movie-licensed tie-in game that ended up being a whole lot cooler than most every other movie-licensed tie-in game released in the same era, Alien 3 for the SNES was the definitive playable version of Ellen Ripley's quest for xenomorph xenocide. I only had Super NES when I was a kid, too, but got a Sega Genesis from a garage sale as a teen. And I thought SNES had a lot. This delightful action RPG shook up the genre with its fun and deep battle system, incorporating real-time action with a brilliant use of timed attacks. You could choose your character color, I think. had that idea first on the SNES. The graphical design is top notch. This second X game gave our futuristic Mega Man a fresh set of animal cyborg foes, including such memorable bosses as Wheel Gator, Bubble Crab and Overdrive Ostrich. The game offered a variety of unique supporting characters to fill out your fighting party, and traditional JRPG design choices like random encounters, turn-based battles and poorly translated text. Following one of the early '90s most popular Spidey comic book arcs, the game let players team up as Peter Parker and Eddie Brock's alter-egos in a ceasefire truce while they tracked down Carnage, a new, murderous symbiote spawned from Venom. The difficulty level was also famously brutal, but the game was nevertheless successful enough to warrant sequels based on Empire and Jedi. X was the first though certainly not the last reinvention of Mega Man. Included in the Super Nintendo's first wave of releases was ActRaiser, a unique hybrid game design that merged side-scrolling action sequences with top-down world-building simulation chapters. The cast of characters got larger, the moves were expanded, and the fatalities got bloodier. Despite being a 2D shooter, it features a bearded old man playing banjo on the cover for some reason. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga . Bringing 2D Shoot'em Ups (shmups) to Modern Consoles. But few of us knew that term at the time for wide-eyed young boys and girls seeing it in action for the first time 20 years ago, it may as well have been magic. You can't get too deep into digging up memories of the 16-bit era before you unearth the age's most amazing annelid, the mutated, cyber-suited superhero Earthworm Jim. Brotato is only in early access right now, but most top down shooter games don't really develop much of a story once . There are a lot of great shmups on SNES ! on the NES is a straight port of the top-down shooter arcade game that sees up to two players clear different stages featuring paths, hordes of enemies, and powerful bosses. Now if only we could get a true sequel. He also got a slack-tongued, doe-eyed sidekick named Gooey who's never been seen again probably because the Kirbster wisely just left him behind on the Super when he finally turned the lights out there and moved on to the next gen. The SNES, responding to the new technique through the following years, was then home to several "cinematic platformers" that adopted a similar style and Flashback was nearly the best of them all. There is a ton of parallax scrolling, and inventive backgrounds. Unfortunately, Google isn't proving useful in finding a good "top 10" or similar list of great top downs. Saving the world required using each version of the hero at the proper time. It wasn't just cosmetic. In the generation that preceded those, though, they were cutting their teeth on Turrican. By the time Ultimate MK3 came around, though, the Big N let the carnage unfold unchecked. Then along comes StarFox, and egad it was awesome. R-Type III: The Third Lightning adds the ability to charge your shot to extreme measures, which will . The item customization and battle mechanics are tight and intuitive, and the game is one of the most well balanced RPGs to date. Players are required to know just when to evade and when to go in for the kill, and the depth only increases as the story progresses. Proving that Konami's Gradius series wasn't the only shooter worth playing early on in the SNES library, Capcom also offered up an energetic port of their arcade game, U.N. Squadron. All the games here lean heavily towards the arcade-y end of the scale you won't find any hardcore flight simulations here but below we've rounded up, in no particular order, the very best . Super Turrican 2 was Factor 5's SNES side-scrolling shooter sequel, a follow-up to their first Super Turrican. Puzzle Bobble! Man, Kirby is killing this countdown this is his fourth featured game after Kirby's Avalanche, Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby Super Star. Best of all was finding a boxer's instant KO point. The first racing game to make the cut for our countdown, Kemco's Top Gear 2 represented a step up from what racing games had been in the previous generation but not too drastic a step. Trying to remember an old game from childhood. But those 4 are the only ones I know! That means, in the course of one week, there were more people who returned the game to get their money back than there were others who actually purchased and kept it. Iron Crypticle, Patch Quest, Tormentor X, Assault Android Cactus, Nuclear Throne, SS Tormental, Robotron, Enter The Gungeon . Final Fantasy IV is all about character development, with copious amounts of dialogue and back stories for each of the wildly different fighters on your team: the young wizard twins, a kung-fu master, a girl who can summon crazy gods to kick butt. Gun Fighter. You had The Great Cave Offensive, where Kirby became a treasure hunter and even found The Legend of Zelda's Triforce. Aka. Genre : Action role-playing game, Indie game, Adventure game, Shooter Video Game, Simulation Video Game. Few would argue with the assertion that Nintendo's Super Nintendo (SNES) system is one of the greatest platforms in the history of the industry. (IMO), but still pretty good. The game started you off as the lowliest of lifeforms and tracked your evolution over time an evolution you could entirely influence. 12 Brotato. Tetris & Dr. Mario at first appeared to be a simple 16-bit repackaging of Nintendo's two most popular 8-bit puzzler the classic falling block puzzler from Russia, Tetris, and the color-matching capsule-dropper, Dr. Mario. After that, I started collecting shmups for the console and have over 20 of them now! Pocky & Rocky is a top-down shooter in which you choose to play as either a young girl named Pocky or her tanuki named Rocky. The evolution of the original series, Mega Man X changed the game by introducing new mechanics, new characters, and a new take on the Blue Bomber. 95. Review score. Then, when the SNES was released, they were there to support the new system on Day 1 with this incredible follow-up. Sparkster could flip out, rocket-rush through the air, spin-slice his enemies and keep his rodent mohawk looking perfect all the while an under-appreciated mascot in a great game. Seriously, all the best character got introduced in MK II. 1994 | Nintendo. SNES: Pop'n Twinbee is a top-down shooter. Metal Slug 2 (Metal Slug 2: Super Vehicle-001/II) Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory. Impressive visuals. The graphics in Dead Star are actually quite good as far as twin stick shooters go. From the first swing of your sword to the final confrontation with Ganondorf, the game embodies pure SNES perfection. And they do in wildly colorful environments, all while wearing big, silly grins grins that attract the attention of some prehistoric hotties. They were toony. Release Year: 2022 (Early Access) Other Platforms: N/A. The combination of Gundam-like mobile suits and Americans taking a break from the galaxy far, far away turned out to be a great one, though, as Metal Warriors was a total blast to play. Another genre-defining masterpiece that is arguably still one of the best in its class. Kiki Kaikai was a decent top down shooter for its time but was even more notable thanks to its aesthetic. Developer: Thing Trunk. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Well, most anything else. Ouch. Far and away one of the Super Nintendo's most unique role-playing games, Shadowrun eschewed the medieval fantasy settings most prominent in the genre in the '90s and offered, instead, a sci-fi cyberpunk scenario taking place in the year 2050. Castlevania IV took the original premise and added five new levels (including ones that take place outside the castle), as well as tighter controls and a few additional gameplay mechanics (like enhanced whip functionality). Who knows why, but Demon's Crest somehow managed to earn an interesting distinction among the entire SNES library it became the only Super Nintendo title in history to actual register negative sales at one point. Then, on the SNES, it helped define what 16-bit home console brawlers would be and inspired two SNES-exclusive sequels. Breath of Fire was Capcom's original attempt at carving out their own piece of the 16-bit RPG pie, the first installment in a role-playing series that would go on to see four future sequels including one we've already featured earlier on this list. This futuristic racer was hard and fast, with mind-bending Mode 7 graphics and an impressive variety of tracks to challenge even the most seasoned racing fan. Jackal and Ikari Warriors on the NES. He could morph himself into the fully-grown adult body of a knight named Freedan for extra fighting power, and also the alien-like lifeform Shadow late in the adventure. There are glossy FPS, hardcore shmups, and classic run and gunners. Create one starring some of the world's most popular comic book characters and, while you're at it, directly adapt one of the comics' biggest storylines to serve as your plot. Shockingly, though, that impossibility became a lot more possible with the release of two Fatal Fury ports to the Super NES. 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