Saturday Night Slam Masters is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. If WWF Royal Rumble is the best wrestling game ever for Super Nintendo, Saturday Night Slam Masters is the second best; which is still saying a lot. Saturday Night Slam Masters offers a very unique wrestling game experience.

It plays like a traditional wrestling game but offers many sights and sounds never seen before.The cast of characters were designed manga artist (Japanese comic artist) Tetsuo Hara giving Saturday Night Slam Masters a very unique look not typical to other American wrestling games. Continue Reading

Super Star Wars is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. Super Star Wars is one of countless video games in the Star Wars Universe but certainly ranks as one of my favorite Star Wars games of all time (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for XBOX being my #1 favorite of all time).

Super Star Wars has phenomenal game play and I love how you can fire off your weapon as fast as you can push the button. Along with an epic sound track and sound effects, Super Star Wars has unlimited replay value. Continue Reading

Disney’s Aladdin is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. Capcom’s 1993 Super Nintendo game Disney’s Aladdin is quite simply an incredibly fun game all around. The side-scrolling game is great because just about everyone loved the movie Aladdin and this was your chance to become Aladdin, ride the magic carpet, beat up bad guys with Abu, and jump around from rooftops.

Wikipedia notes that “the storyline more or less closely follows the plot of its namesake, the Disney full-length animated motion picture, with Aladdin going from a street rat to a prince, who first woos, and then has to rescue, the Princess Jasmine.” Continue Reading

NBA Jam is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. When Midway’s NBA Jam first came out in 1993 it took sports video games by storm. It was unlike any other basketball game because it moved away from the traditional dribble up and dribble down and implemented a unique arcade style game play that pretty much blew everyone’s mind the first time they played.

“The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of sports games which were based around action-packed game play,” says Wikipedia. Players could preform insane, never-seen-before-in-video-game dunks that made the entire room hoot and holler. Continue Reading

Street Fighter II is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. Street Fighter II, in my estimation, is the original, the classic, the one that started it all when it comes to head-to-head fighting games. Wikipedia states that “Street Fighter II is credited for starting the fighting game boom during the 1990s.” Street Fighter II is an immensely popular game that occupied countless weekends when I was younger.

Street Fighter II offers a choice is several memorable characters such as Blanka (A Brazillian man-beast with a few electric suprises), E Honda (a Japanese sumo wrestler), Zangief (a massive Russian) and many, many more: Continue Reading

The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past holds the #1 overall spot on sydlexia.com’s list of the “The 100 Best SNES Games Ever.” The game is simply epic and strengthened the already strong Zelda franchise when it came out 1992.

Wikipedia adds “A Link to the Past is one of the best-selling SNES games, with 4.61 million units sold worldwide, and has had an exceptionally long stay on Nintendo Power’s top games list: when the SNES list was finally retired, A Link to the Past had more than five consecutive years in the number one spot. It was re-released as a Player’s Choice title in North America, indicating that it has sold a minimum of one million copies there.” Continue Reading

Sim City is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. Sim City is a low-key, super fun, and super chill game where your only goal is to build a booming metrolpolis. Sim City allows you to develop three main types of land: commercial, industrial, and residential. Sim City is a very deep game that requires an incredible amount of strategy, savvy, and on-your-feet thinking.

The Mayor of Sim City (you) would optionally have to face disasters such as floods, tornades, fires and a Bowser attack on your city. Continue Reading

Super Mario World is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. I’m not so sure there is a game more universally loved than Super Mario World. It is quite simply one of the most fun and enjoyable games of all time. I’m hard pressed to believe that it wont be considered the single best game for Super Nintendo when it’s all said and done.

According to Wikipedia Super Mario World ” has gone on to become a critical and commercial success, becoming the best seller for the platform, with 20 million copies sold worldwide. Like in previous games in the Mario series, the plot involves Mario and Luigi traversing different lands on a quest to rescue Princess Toadstool who has been kidnapped by Bowser.”

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The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is a single-player adventure game featuring Kid Ying and Dr. Yang and is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. The Legend of the Mystical Ninja can be an extremely deep game if you want it to be. However, if you want to play casual you can do that to and also have a great game experience. The Legend of the Mystical Ninja features countless games within the game; from video arcades, dice games, to betting on horses.

Wikipedia explains the plot as, “after noticing some odd occurrences in their hometown, Kid Ying and Dr. Yang decide to investigate. They soon discover that Princess Yuki has been kidnapped by the Otafu army. To save the princess, the protagonists must travel through different regions of Japan to find clues about the army and the location of the princess.” Pretty cut and dry. Continue Reading

WWF Royal Rumble is the latest entry to our list of the Best SNES Games Ever.In 1993 I bought WWF Royal Rumble brand new on Super Nintendo for a whopping $80 at a Toys R’ Us in Westport, Connecticut. Considering video games typically cost half that amount today, WWF Royal Rumble was a hot game to say the least and a must-own for me then. Looking back at my youth, I could have logged more hours playing WWF Royal Rumble over any other video game.

WWF Royal Rumble had everything a wrestling fan could have asked for in a wrestling video game. All the popular wrestlers were included with their signature finishing maneuvers and virtually every type of match was there. To say WWF Royal Rumble is an addictive game would be to say Michael Jordan is only a good basketball player. Continue Reading

Turtles in Time

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is the latest entry to our list of Best SNES Games Ever. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is on of the greatest multi-player games ever to be released on Super Nintendo - fanatics will argue of all time. When super-villain Krang steals the Statue of Liberty you know it’s time for Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael to somersault into action.

The Turtles begin perusing and battling the Foot Clan starting in New York City and then are warped to various periods of time by arch-nemesis Shredder until a final confrontation in the epic super base the Technodrome. At one point during the game the Turtles find themselves battling their classic foes Bebop and Rocksteady aboard a pirate ship in 1530 AD. Continue Reading

Final Fight

Final Fight is the latest entry to our list of Best SNES Games Ever. Final Fight is a button-mashing, beat-em-up, side scrolling action game that takes place in the fictional Metro City sometime in the 1990s. Final Fight features one of the more famous video game characters of all time in Mike Haggar. Haggar is accompanied with Cody & Guy.

Haggar has muscles on top of muscles and “can inflict huge damage against his opponents while using wrestling techniques such as a suplex and a pile driver,” says Wikipedia.org. Haggar also unleashes quite the battle cry when trouncing his opponents. Standing at an epic 6′ 6″ and weighing in at a walloping 297 pounds, Haggar is an ex-pro wrestler turned Mayor of Metro City who must defend his city and rescue his kidnapped daughter from the vile street gang Mad Gear. Continue Reading

If the name Captain Falcon doesn’t mean anything to you, you’ll quickly need to study self-defense to ward off the intense attack I’m about to unleash upon you. F-Zero is a racing game for Super Nintendo that takes place in the future. F-Zero is on our list of Best SNES Games Ever and rightfully so. Any Super Nintendo fan has no doubt played F-Zero for as long as your eyes will allow; it’s one of those games where every time you look at the clock one and a half hours have elapsed.

F-Zero

“F-Zero became part of the Player’s Choice line by selling at least a million copies. F-Zero was widely lauded by game critics for its graphical realism, and has been called the fastest and most fluid pseudo-3D racing game of its time,” according to wikipedia.org. Continue Reading

Zombies Ate My Neighbors is the latest Super Nintendo game to be included in our list of the Best SNES Games Ever. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a shoot-em-up go-as-quick-as-you-can game where you either kill zombies or, like the name of the game suggests, the zombies will eat your neighbors. Yes, the game is as fun as it sounds.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Zombies Ate My Neighbors has a seemingly infinite amount of levels which have the two main characters, Zeke and Julie, fighting zombies and saving there neighbors through suburban neighborhoods, forests of thorn bushes, pyramids & tombs, shopping malls and factories. Each level is ominously named for what you’re about to face - for example: Continue Reading