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Ranking the 12 best Super Nintendo games is no easy task, but what if we told you that it could jumpstart your childhood all over again? We already ranked the best Nintendo 64 games, and we like to think we nailed it so now we’re taking it up a notch with the best of SuperNES.
We’ve got a little bit of everything: Super Mario, sports, space, combat and your favorite turtles that are both adolescents and ninjas. And if that’s not enough, we’ve laced this motherfucker with jokes, equal parts nostalgia and hilarity.
Should you feel we unfairly excluded any Super Nintendo games, you could let us know. We won’t do anything about it, but you’re free to voice your super opinions. Should you make a good enough case as to the ranking of these Super Nintendo games, we will appreciate said case well made and continue on like nothing ever happened. And now, on with the countdown. Fuck, we miss Casey Kasem.
Ranking the 12 Best Super Nintendo Games That Could Jumpstart Your Childhood All Over Again
Now, dust off that old game system and get to playing!
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12. "NBA Jam" (1993)
If only real life basketball was this fast paced and involved flaming basketball, then we'd really have a sport. Countless hours were spent dunking on our friends then shoving it in their face because that's how men expressed themselves in the '90s.
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11. "Street Fighter II: Turbo" (1992)
Our only regret about this the street fighting world was that we couldn't be Jean-Claude Van Damme in real life. This sweet sequel game made up for that.
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10. "Mortal Kombat II" (1993)
Possibly one of the few SuperNES games where the sequel outshines the original, the Mortal Combat circuit only grew darker, harder and a little bit weirder in its characters and arenas. I finished off a lot of friends to this game. Well, that sounded weird, didn't it?
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9. "Star Fox" (1993)
The already addictive game prefaced one of the best Nintendo 64 games that also somehow took even more of our life away.
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8. "Donkey Kong Country" (1994)
Personally, I wasn't as into Donkey Kong as much as my friends, but I can appreciate how addictive the game is. This was the beginning of a very long, time-consuming relationship we had with apes (and still, we're going to see them in theaters today).
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7. "NHL '95" (1994)
If you check any list of Super Nintendo game rankings, you won't find this anywhere. To those people, we apologize for the lack of hat tricks in their sad, miserable lives.
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6. "Super Mario World" (1990)
The staple game that probably came with the console, Super Mario and his delightful little world has been the cornerstone of gaming since we were breastfeeding, which is still today.
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5. "Super Metroid" (1994)
Either you know it or you don't. I grew up in a world of little Italian men jumping on manholes and sports games, but for of us with a sci-fi dragon fixation, it was a lot of the same Super Mario-based type levels with the addition of a few nightmarish dragons.
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4. "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" (1991)
Consistently voted as the best N64 game, the legend of Zelda goes back a little further. The Super NES version was a big step up from the basic graphic game from 1986, but it still hadn't reached it peak. Still, we dedicated hours to this rather than our homework.
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3. "Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball" (1994)
Say what you will, but this is the best damn sports game ever. Who didn't want to be Wade Boggs back then? How about Wade Boggs now?
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2. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" (1991)
While we loved the arcade TMNT games, nothing will compare to the first solid SuperNES game that led to the Technodrome. I still can't get over it.
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1. "Super Mario Kart" (1992)
This, my friends, was the beginning of a pretty hardcore addiction, worse than any vice we've come across. The way the game has evolved with N64 to Nintendo Wii is unreal, if you keep up. It's never not the best thing to do when you've had just the right amount to smoke.
