5 Super Nintendo Games You Ought To Try!
1. Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the Super Nintendo – LucasArts looked at every B-horror movie from the 50s and said "yes, all of it." Your job is to save the neighbors (cheerleaders, tourists, somebody's poor dog) from zombies, werewolves, chainsaw maniacs and giant babies. Yes, giant babies. You start with a squirt gun and work your way up to weed whackers and bazookas, which is a career path I respect. The later levels get mean, but the passwords save you from starting over. Grab a friend for two player and maybe watch some Evil Dead first to get in the mood.
2. Demon's Crest for the Super Nintendo – Remember the red gargoyle that spent the whole Ghosts 'n Goblins series ambushing poor Arthur? Capcom made him the hero. Firebrand collects crests that turn him into new forms, and each form opens up new parts of the map, so it plays like a platformer with a Metroid streak in it. The art is dark, the music is great, and the boss fights are a blast. Fair warning, it is a short game and the cartridge is not cheap anymore. I still say it's worth it.
3. Wild Guns for the Super Nintendo – Take Sunset Riders, add a crosshair, then have steampunk robots ride into the saloon. That's Wild Guns. You play as Annie or Clint, dodging around the screen while aiming at bandits, tin can bots and pretty much everything else that moves. Get this, you can blow up half the scenery too, and it's every bit as fun as it sounds. It is a short one, and the price tag has gone up, but with a buddy on co-op it is a 9/10 for me.
4. ActRaiser for the Super Nintendo – You play a god, and apparently being a god is a hands-on job. One minute you are cutting through monsters in an action stage, the next you are running your people like a city builder, telling them where to farm and where to build while an angel shoots the monsters out of the sky. The building half is pretty light, and the action stages will test you, but the soundtrack is unreal. Oh, and it is a Castlevania style platformer that also has SimCity in it. I still can't explain why that works, but it does.
5. Uniracers for the Super Nintendo – Racing on the SNES means Mario Kart and F-Zero, right? Then there are cartoon unicycles doing backflips down a track. Land your tricks clean and you get a speed boost, which turns every race into a game of showing off while still trying to win. Plug in a second controller, because two player is where this one really shines. Also, it was made by DMA Design, the same studio who later gave us Grand Theft Auto became Rockstar. Wild pivot.
So, there you have it, FIVE GAMES you really ought to hunt down! For those of you who already own these, respect. For those of you who don't, go dig through a bin, ask a shopkeeper, and find out what the SNES had to offer beyond the greatest hits. Indiana Jones said it belongs in a museum, but I say these belong in your SNES! Browse all Super Nintendo games