ScrewAttack's Top 20 SNES Games

[MottZilla]

The point of Top ## lists are to highlight games that you like or think are worthy of playing. The point isn't to absolutely rank each game precisely to your liking. It's so others will see your list, discuss the games, try new games out, replay games, etc.

Anthony, while the GBA certainly was a good system I hated some of the SNES ports. The GBA really needed a higher resolution, same with the DS. But some games were just fantastic. Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission. Absolutely, the best GBA games.

[Shazza Dani]

Top lists are always flawed simply because it's so hard to remember absolutely everything. I hate it when people ask me what my top whatever games are, simply because there are so many great games I love. There are a couple that will always make the list (Lunar, Planescape, Fallout), but the others I list will vary based on what I'm thinking about, what genre I've been playing lately, etc. Combine this with the fact that I've spent thousands (probably tens of thousands) of hours on hundreds and hundreds of games, and it becomes even harder for me to pin down what my favorite games are, even within a specific genre.

That's why I never put much thought into my "top whatever" or my "favourite whatever". I just name what I like at the moment.

[Aliem]

Why don't they release Mario Paint for the Wii? That would be a perfect use of the WiiMote. =/

Mario Paint on the Wii would be an addictive game. There are a load of possibilities there. I'd like to see that in the future.

[Warlock]

Watched the videos. Not a terrible list. Though I still don't get the obsession with Yoshi's Island. I've tried playing that so many times and it usually just ends up pissing me off

I'm still a bit surprised that Star Fox wasn't in the top 10 though (yes it looked like crap but back then, that was amazing ) Or Mario Kart for that matter. And yeah, I don't know why Killer Instinct made the list at all over quite a few other deserving titles. Otherwise, not bad. I think I even agree a lot with the placement of most of their top 10. Yes, Super Metroid > A Link to the Past

[Revfan9]

Why don't they release Mario Paint for the Wii? That would be a perfect use of the WiiMote. =/

I actually do remember hearing something about that being in development around the time we got the first Red Steel screenshots. Dunno what happened to it though, I would look it up if I cared.

Watching the list made me wanna play Super Metroid again :3

Though Top 20 lists are pointless in terms of actually trying to rank games, simply because 90% of it is completely dependent on the opinion and the personality of whoever is making the list. I don't agree with most of the placements, I would have put Chrono Trigger above FF6, and I would have put Metroid lower simply because, while it's undeniably up there, side-scrollers aren't really my cup of tea, but that's purely my opinion, which goes back to my original point.

Top lists that are voted upon are pointless too because all you get are fanboys who vote for Final Fantasy 7 on 20 different IPs ;/

[AlphaDawg]

I think the purpose of Top X lists is exactly what we've got going on here... spirited debate.

I forgot to give a shoutout to Super Game Boy as well. After somehow managing to lose not one, but two original Game Boys in my youth, one that could stay attached to the SNES (or right beside it) was perfect for me. Where is it now, you ask? Uh, let me get back to you on that one...

I wish I had as much mad Mario Paint skill as this guy.

[MottZilla]

Though Top 20 lists are pointless in terms of actually trying to rank games, simply because 90% of it is completely dependent on the opinion and the personality of whoever is making the list.

What? You're wrong. It's 100% opinion. :p

And yes the Super Gameboy is awesome. Did you know is had an older product before it? The Super Wideboy for Famicom. Essentially the same thing but for Famicom. It wasn't commercial though. I never had a Super Gameboy myself but my friend did. And I remember him "sawwing off" his Gameboy Game Genie so it would fit in the Super Gameboy.

The SGB was really a great accessory. Just a shame that SNES was gone by the time GBC came along. Not to mention N64 never had a Gameboy player, just Pokemon Stadium that played only Pokemon. The GC had the GB Player, but the controller isn't ideal, nor if the use of the boot disc.

But anyway, for its time SGB was genious. I should pick one up someday. I never lost a Gameboy luckily. Though I only ever owned a select few. The Ice Blue GB Pocket, the original GBA, and the GBA SP. I also never owned that many games for it. I mainly got the GB Pocket because I wanted Pokemon and it came with Zelda bundled in. I bought Metroid 2 to go with it. And that was pretty much it till much later I picked up the Ninja Gaiden for GB off ebay. Long after GB was dead. I also got the Star Wars trilogy (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) for GB for about 1$ off ebay too.

Today I'm thinking about spending some time playing some SNES. There are still alot of SNES games I've never played and I have access to 99% of them to play on my Super Famicom.

[Warlock]

Yeah, to this day it still bothers me that Nintendo stopped supporting the Super Gameboy. Games such as Donkey Kong '94 and several others had enhanced (GBC-like) color palettes specifically for Super Gameboy. But GBC, GBA, and Gameboy Player completely ignore this data and treat the games like boring Black & White titles (aka you get to pick from one of their lame pre-selected color choices).

Which was another thing awesome about Super Gameboy - you could pick the colors yourself, rather than being forced to use what Nintendo thought was good for you. On top of which, you could switch them on the fly (though I wish you could have saved color profiles), which was great. I'd play my GB Mega Man titles and color each stage based on the colors of the NES Mega Mans Or play Link's Awakening and color each dungeon differently I believe Nintendo even had a Super Gameboy Player's Guide that gave you color suggestions for a lot of games.

[MottZilla]

You actually could save your palette settings to a Passcode I believe. I think it is a shame the way the SGB was ignored. The SGB2 even came out in 1998, though it was limited release. It would have rocked if they'd been able to wait and made it a SCGB. Now I wonder how long it'll be before you see a GBA or DS tie-in to the Wii?

You know these classic games are most of what I play still. I don't usually play anything but the AAA next-gen titles, so the rest is all classic stuff usually. Gears of War, Call of Duty 4, C&C3, and classic 8 and 16 bit action.

[vegeta1215]

Super Metroid is the most perfect game _ever_. They have my support.