Top SNES Games

The SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) is one of the older 16-bit video game consoles that is fairly obsolete today. Despite this, there are many people who are still big fans of the SNES games, as these games were the rage in the market at a time when video game consoles were still an elitist consumer electronics product.

Introduced to the world between 1990 and 1993, the SNES was created by Nintendo and distributed by Hyundai electronics. In a time of Atari consoles, the SNES really took the world by storm and created the history of Nintendo. It showed people what the future of video game consoles was going to be like. Also known as the Super Famicom (in Japan and Southeast Asia) and the Super Comboy in South Korea, the SNES was one of the revolutionary inventions of the last decade of the 20th century.

Today, with the progress of highly advanced video game consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, the SNES looks like an analog piece of machinery in a digital world. SNES lovers though are spread all across the world, and believe it or not, there are still many people who love playing SNES games for old times sake.

List of Top SNES Games

The SNES was the second console offered by Nintendo after the NES, and the improvements it made with regards to graphics and sound was truly exceptional at the time. Here are some of the most loved and most popular SNES games, which made this console such a big hit.

• Rock 'N Roll Racing
• Earthworm Jim
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Kirby Super Star
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors
• Gradius III
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
• F-Zero
• Contra III: The Alien Wars
• Super Castlevania IV
• Mega Man 7
• Street Fighter II: Turbo
• Super Punch-Out
• Super Mario Kart
• Super Mario World
• Final Fantasy III
• Donkey Kong Country
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
• Mega Man X
• Secret of Mana
• Super Metroid
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Chrono Trigger
• The Death and Return of Superman
• Super Adventure Island II
• Out of This World
• Tetris Attack
• Sunset Riders
• Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• Mega Man Soccer
• Disney's Aladdin
• Saturday Night Slam Masters
• Batman Returns
• Super Turrican
• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
• Demon's Crest
• Cybernator
• WWF Royal Rumble
• Super Double Dragon
• Mortal Kombat 3
• Jurassic Park
• Pilotwings
• Spide-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage
• SimCity

There are many more SNES games apart from these, but the games mentioned here are the ones that made the biggest splash amongst gamers at that time. Any of the games mentioned here can be included in a top 10 SNES games list, because they are all equally good and unique in their own way. The history of video game consoles would be rather different if the SNES was not released when it was.

Compared to the great games that we have today, all these games were what are known as arcade games. There was no game in which the gamer was playing from the point of view of the character (First Person Shooter games or Role Playing Games), and there were very few sports games as well. The undisputed winner of this era of video games was the character called Mario, who has appeared in over 200 games since his creation.

IF you really want to see the evolution of video games then you must play these games. We guarantee that you shall not be disappointed, and you may even be willing to give up your PS3 or Xbox 360 for a while to enjoy these great creations.