The 15 Greatest SNES Games of All Time
I’ve made it clear by now that ranking games in a franchise or a system’s library is not easy. Even if these rankings are subjective, deciding which games are “best” wracks my brain for hours before I finish a rough draft. This is why I do not say lightly that all my lists to this point pale in comparison to the difficulty of ranking the best SNES games.
Lord Spencer elegantly described my 10 best Mario games list as “a list of nines rolling into tens.” As I jotted down my picks for this list, I realized they were all potentially tens. The SNES is so jam-packed with incredible titles that we upped the count to 15 to represent it. This is a system where legends were born, franchises were codified, and memories were made magical. No list can contain every SNES game worth playing, but know that I have tried my hardest to honor some of the greatest games ever created. If your favorite title didn’t make the cut, I’m sure it is still well worth remembering.
Let’s quickly establish some ground rules. For the sake of diversity, only one game per series qualifies (though spinoffs are okay). I’m only including games with official English releases since this was tough enough without trying to fit in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. That said, here’s my longest list of honorable mentions yet just because of how absolutely packed the SNES library is: The Ninja Warriors, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Super Punch-Out!!, Demon’s Crest, Shadowrun, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, Super Turrican, Super Castlevania IV, and Actraiser. Whew, maybe I should have made this a Top 25. With that, place your bets on how many games below will have the word “super” in their titles.
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