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Top 100 Super Nintendo Games

IGN created a list of their top 100 Super Nintendo games. How many can you guess?
Remember that many games on the SNES have the word Super in their title
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Last updated: May 20, 2019
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First submittedNovember 10, 2014
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Game
1
The Legend of Zelda:
A Link to the Past
2
Chrono Trigger
3
Super Metroid
4
Final Fantasy III
5
Super Mario World
6
Street Fighter II Turbo
7
Super Mario World 2:
Yoshi's Island
8
Super Mario Kart
9
Star Fox
10
Super Mario RPG:
Legend of the Seven Stars
11
Secret of Mana
12
Mega Man X
13
Earthbound
14
Final Fantasy II
15
Tetris Attack
16
Donkey Kong Country 2:
Diddy's Kong Quest
17
Super Punch-Out!!!
18
F-Zero
19
ActRaiser
20
Super Mario All-Stars
21
Super Castlevania IV
22
Mario Paint
23
The Magical Quest Starring
Mickey Mouse
24
Contra III: The Alien Wars
25
Mortal Kombat II
26
Super Return of the Jedi
27
Tetris & Dr. Mario
28
Donkey Kong Country
29
Wario's Woods
30
The Lost Vikings
31
Mega Man X2
32
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
33
Metal Warriors
34
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
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Game
35
Sim City
36
NBA Jam
37
UN Squadron
38
Kirby's Dream Course
39
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Turtles in Time
40
Earthworm Jim 2
41
Ogre Battle: March of
the Black Queen
42
EVO: Search for Eden
43
Breath of Fire
44
Demon's Crest
45
Gradius III
46
Harvest Moon
47
Kirby Super Star
48
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
49
Super Bomberman
50
Yoshi's Cookie
51
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
52
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
53
Breath of Fire II
54
Bust-a-Move
55
Axelay
56
Alien 3
57
Earthworm Jim
58
Donkey Kong Country 3:
Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
59
NHL '94
60
Aladdin
61
Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics
62
Kirby's Dreamland 3
63
Fatal Fury 2
64
International Superstar Soccer
65
R-Type III
66
The Lion King
67
Mega Man X3
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Game
68
Kirby's Avalanche
69
Out of this World
70
Populous
71
Jungle Strike
72
Rock n' Roll Racing
73
Pocky & Rocky 2
74
Illusion of Gaia
75
Madden '94
76
Soul Blazer
77
Shadowrun
78
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
79
Flashback
80
Pilotwings
81
The Death and Return
of Superman
82
Killer Instinct
83
Super Star Wars
84
Super Tennis
85
Spider-Man & Venom:
Maximum Carnage
86
Stunt Race FX
87
Sparkster
88
Sunset Riders
89
Super Bomberman 2
90
Blackthorne
91
Super Star Wars:
The Empire Strikes Back
92
Super Double Dragon
93
Super Turrican 2
94
The Adventures of
Batman & Robin
95
Top Gear 2
96
Street Fighter Alpha 2
97
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
98
Uniracers
99
Tiny Toon Adventures:
Buster Busts Loose
100
Final Fight
32 Comments
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Level 81
Feb 19, 2015
So many great games. Funny I saw a list of best Genesis games the other day... Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, and their inferior versions of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter were all in the top 5. On the SNES list.. Aladdin ends up #60. No wonder Nintendo won the 16-bit wars.

Biggest omission that springs to mind is probably Cybernator. Great game.

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Level 66
Mar 26, 2015
Not sure about the sequels, but Genesis had the superior version of the first Mortal Kombat because Nintendo was squeamish about blood and censored the heck out of the game.
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Level 81
Mar 18, 2016
The SNES version of Mortal Kombat was at least comparable to the Genesis version. All the Genesis had going for it really was red pixels. And MK2 on the SNES was much better, and MK2 was far superior to MK1. Every Street Fighter game was also much better on the SNES. Not a fair match up.
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Level 66
Mar 21, 2017
Several of the fatalities were changed in the first Mortal Kombat game for the home release, to be something less bloody. That was actually the origin of Sub-Zero's finisher where he freezes the opponent's body and then shatters it. His original fatality in the first game was to rip their head (with the spine still attached) off their body and then hold it up. The Genesis version still has that fatality (and the others that were changed) if you put in the blood code, whereas SNES didn't have that code. But from the second game onward, they were usually identical, and then the SNES's superior hardware made it the better game.
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Level 81
Jul 29, 2017
Right. I know that. I stand by what I said above. MK1 sucked on every console anyway.
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Level 66
Jul 31, 2017
To each their own. The Genesis version of the first game was my favorite because it was actually beatable. I found the arcade version way too hard.
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Level 81
Sep 28, 2017
I beat all of these games countless times. I felt a pretty big sense of accomplishment upon beating M. Bison the first time but eventually they were all easy to me.
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Level 49
Nov 5, 2015
Maybe because Aladdin on the megadrive is superior the snes version^^ But I think that IGN missed alot of titles, the megadrive have an awesome library, I say on the same level as the SNES. But yeah, both are great consoles.
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Level 81
Mar 18, 2016
Nah, not really. If you check out multi-console video game magazine reviews from the period, compare the scores they gave to games for either system, the SNES beats the pants off the Genesis. It's really not even close. Mario games were better than Sonic games. Final Fantasy and Zelda games were better than Phantasy Star. Fighting games were always better on the SNES. Action/adventure games, RPGs, and racing were all better on SNES. and then there were games on SNES like Star Fox, Pilotwings, F-Zero, etc. for which Sega had nothing comparable. Genesis had a few good shooters and sports titles, and Toejam & Earl, that's about it.
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Level 58
Mar 5, 2015
Perhaps you could add some variety to the entries? I guessed a dozen of them that it turned out were missing a "Super" or the title was arranged a little differently than I remembered.
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Level 66
Mar 26, 2015
If you mean the games on the list, this is IGN's choice of Top 100, not mine. Are there games where you think alternate spellings or titles should be accepted?
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Level 81
Mar 18, 2016
I think he was saying that you should allow more type-ins. Like accept Star Wars for Super Star Wars. Though that one works... maybe some others don't.
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Level 49
Nov 5, 2015
You should accept more answers, like I wrote Area 88 but was not accepted for U.N squadron, same goes for Illusion of time and some others. Other then that, fun quiz=)
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Level 66
Nov 9, 2015
I wasn't aware of the different tile for Area 88 / U.N. Squadron. Updating.
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Level 66
May 27, 2017
Now that the quiz is for points, I can't even get 5/5 on my own quiz. :-p
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Level 61
Jun 6, 2017
how do you make tetris and dr Mario together? they were separate cartridges
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Level 66
Jun 9, 2017
Originally, yes. They were separate games for the NES and Game Boy. They were also sold as a single cartridge containing both games on the SNES. Try a Google image search for "tetris dr mario snes" and you can see the cartridge. I'm quite surprised that IGN would include that on their list given that it's just a port of two NES games, but they did.
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Level 66
Jul 28, 2017
Man, i'm angry with myself didn't get even 50%. My Snes is still in my closet, the only video game that i have in my life. But in my small city, we have few options at the stores, like bomberman (my prefered one) and megaman X. Still have so much to know.
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Level 66
Jul 29, 2017
Even if you remember all the big titles (and I usually forget at least one), there are a lot of obscure games on this list. There are definitely a couple of game hipsters working at IGN.
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Level 91
Jul 28, 2017
They put Tetris Attack at #15? Really? Not a bad game, but I wouldn't rank it THAT high.
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Level 66
Jul 29, 2017
Totally agree. I would never put it anywhere near that high if I were ranking them myself. But if it HAD been my list, most of the top 20 would have been RPGs and that's probably not fair either.
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Level 81
Jul 28, 2017
Man, this quiz is tough unless you remember the alternate titles or how the sequels were named.

For example, I remember there being a bunch of Kirby games, but not how each one was separately named.

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Level 66
Jul 29, 2017
Tell me about it! I can only remember Kirby's Dream Land on the Game Boy and Kirby's Adventure on the NES. I thought if I let it just take "Kirby" though, that would be too easy.
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Level 60
Aug 9, 2017
Man, for all the hours I logged playing F-Zero, I plum forgot it. Not to mention the entire Mega Man series.
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Level 66
Mar 12, 2018
I've just made a Top 25 Game Boy Games quiz, using the list by Game Informer since I can't find one from IGN. If you liked this quiz, check it out!
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Level 85
May 11, 2019
Could you accept Unirally for Uniracers? That was the name in PAL regions.
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Level 66
May 20, 2019
Sure. I added the type-in and re-submitted. Now just need to wait for re-approval.
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Level 64
Jul 4, 2019
I can’t believe IGN ranked Donkey Kong Country 2 16th. It is a perfect game and needs to be top 3 (I’ll accept Link to the Past at 1, though DKC 2’s maybe even better than THAT).

Super Metroid is always overrated. Top 10? Sure. But somewhere between 8-10 and absolutely behind DKC 2, Super Mario World, Final Fantasy III (VI), and more.

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Level 47
Oct 10, 2019
Really enjoyable quiz!

It does sadden me playing it though to realise how many great games Europe missed out on at the time though.

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Level 48
Oct 5, 2021
its almost sad how poorly i did on this quiz :(
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Level 85
Apr 22, 2022
"Super Castlevania" should be accepted without the "IV."
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Level 66
Aug 27, 2022
Not enough type-in support.