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What is the best Nintendo console ever made?

Super Nintendo 31 50.00%
 
Super NES 5 8.06%
 
SNES 19 30.65%
 
Super Famicom 7 11.29%
 
Total:62
LuckyTrouble on 23 November 2015
d21lewis said:
Kennel83 said:
It may sound weird but the worst decision I ever made was selling my Snes with more than 30 games just to buy a fucking Playstation 1. Damn my big brother fooled me on this. Played the ps1 very little and regret it since the moment I sold it.

My favourite games were:
Secret of Evermore and Terranigma.
Then the obvious Link to the past, Super mario world, kart, fzero, dkc trilogy, star wars games, mario rpg, Super Castlevania IV, ghouls and ghosts, well... all of them. Best console ever :_(

Still have the SNES but traded some really great games (Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox, etc) when an issue of EGM said they were worth money. I can't home with Tomb Raider 3 and 4, Wu Tang Clan, Rollcage, and some other b-list PS1 stuff that I didn't like.

At least my Ouya has a great emulator so I can still play those games.

The thing that made me the most sad reading this was seeing that I now know of two people that own an Ouya. Don't worry. There are support groups out there.

:P



 

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iLikeEggs on 23 November 2015

Best console ever.

CHRONO TRIGGER, ZELDA A LINK TO THE PAST, FINAL FANTASY 6, SUPER METROID, SUPER MARIO WORLD 1 AND 2, TALES OF PHANTASIA etc. etc. etc. I can go on and on and on and on

This system, to me, has the most games that we will look back on and say, "wow, that is one of, if not the, best game ever made." I don't know what magic existed during that era, but it was beautiful. And I only played most of these games in the late 2000s (I was born in 90). Not to mention, most of the 2d art is still gorgeous. Also, the consistent high quality of the soundtracks back then will never stop amazing me.



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manuel on 23 November 2015
Cloudman said:
manuel said:

Aah, the nights I've spent with this

 


o: What about Seiken Densetsu 3?

PLayed it, but as an adult. Not the same experience by a long shot. :/



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lonerism on 23 November 2015

Donkey Kong Country 2 is the best SNES title, period.

Ah, the memories



lonerism on 23 November 2015
Kennel83 said:
It may sound weird but the worst decision I ever made was selling my Snes with more than 30 games just to buy a fucking Playstation 1. Damn my big brother fooled me on this. Played the ps1 very little and regret it since the moment I sold it.

My favourite games were:
Secret of Evermore and Terranigma.
Then the obvious Link to the past, Super mario world, kart, fzero, dkc trilogy, star wars games, mario rpg, Super Castlevania IV, ghouls and ghosts, well... all of them. Best console ever :_(


I sold my SNES (after years of gaming) and bought a Game Boy Color bahahahahahaa

Well at least that frigging neon green GBC introduced me to Pokemon



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Ruler on 23 November 2015

SNES was a great console but i prefer my Neo Geo from that era



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Pavolink on 23 November 2015

A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Super Mario World

What a great console, with great games from those franchises.



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Kennel83 on 23 November 2015
BasilZero said:
Kennel83 said:
It may sound weird but the worst decision I ever made was selling my Snes with more than 30 games just to buy a fucking Playstation 1. Damn my big brother fooled me on this. Played the ps1 very little and regret it since the moment I sold it.


Somewhat similar situation - my parents sold my first SNES :(

Then gave my 2nd SNES away to my cousins....never to see it again T__T

Oh god, that's so cruel :P 

Funny story, I managed to get a snes for free a few years ago with 4 games... but no controller or cables.

I swear when I'm rich I'm going to buy all the snes games I miss and two controllers, but only if I'm rich, because last time I searched for Secret of Evermore it was on sale for 80€



Kennel83 on 23 November 2015
lonerism said:

I sold my SNES (after years of gaming) and bought a Game Boy Color bahahahahahaa

Well at least that frigging neon green GBC introduced me to Pokemon


Haha well I'm sure you played more than I did with the ps1 so it was worth it for you xD

I still have my first game boy, it's so old and we played so much with it that the screen has duct tape on it or it would fall xD I lost all the games though, I'm such a mess haha.



iLikeEggs on 25 November 2015
padib said:
iLikeEggs said:
Best console ever.

CHRONO TRIGGER, ZELDA A LINK TO THE PAST, FINAL FANTASY 6, SUPER METROID, SUPER MARIO WORLD 1 AND 2, TALES OF PHANTASIA etc. etc. etc. I can go on and on and on and on

This system, to me, has the most games that we will look back on and say, "wow, that is one of, if not the, best game ever made." I don't know what magic existed during that era, but it was beautiful. And I only played most of these games in the late 2000s (I was born in 90). Not to mention, most of the 2d art is still gorgeous. Also, the consistent high quality of the soundtracks back then will never stop amazing me.

Nintendo magic. I've said this before and I hope people hear it, but the industry leader really influences the games made by others.

When Nintendo made games like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and those games sold like crazy (or, in the case of metroid, received a lot of gamer attention), the others did a lot of things to try to reel in on the hype trains related to those industry leading games.

When the industry leader changes, all the magic in the industry can change, or even fade.

An interesting example is final fantasy. Look at what happened to FFVII when it jumped to Playstation. It was an amazing game, but FFVII represents a shift in the series towards more serious movie-like themes. Look at games like Metal Gear. Most of these games took on directions which much better suited the new industry leader: Sony. Sony is known for its movies and conspiracy-like plots, epic type music, and many other themes which revolve around politics, money and sex. Over time, even though FFVII hasn't reached that point, it was one of many turning points in that direction. Later we had FFX, with some characters showing more skin as an example, and over time the games are much more sexualized and revolve around topics that weren't the big thing during the Nintendo years.

I know it's not the answer you wanted, but to me it's what makes the most sense.

And it's why I often hope for a Nintendo-led industry. It's one where the type of games that rely on sex, machoism, money, violence, politics are ignored, and the games based on adventure and awe are the center of attention. It's the industry I prefer.

And of course this is a generalization of the situation, I realize that there are exceptions to the rule, such as games like Journey and SotC.

This is actually a really interesting analysis, and after carefully examining it, I think I would have to agree with most of it. There definitely is a decent amount of games releasing that ignore many of the trends that you mention (most lower-budget/indies/Nintendo), but most of the big releases now a days are exactly like what you mentioned. Do you think that the timing of Nintendo's sales decline (post-SNES) might have also had an effect, due to the shift in focus from 2d to 3d games? I think that also might have had an impact. 

Also, there are people who are just afraid/embarrassed to play "non-mature" games. I see it all the time on here. It's cool to play games like the Witcher, but it's not cool to play Splatoon or indies. One of my best friends saw me playing my WiiU and some indie games on my pc a few years back, and he tried to criticize me for not playing games like Assassin's Creed (I played 2 and hated it) and Heavy Rain (probably my least favorite game of all time----it's not fun at all and has a terrible story). We played some coop games and Smash and he eventually realized that sometimes games are meant to be fun and have good gameplay. He's now more open-minded, but still, it was very eye-opening. I never knew that some people base their self-worth/maturity level and status on the games that they play. 



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